On Sunday 09 September 2007 21:35:40 Gary Kline wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 04:17:21PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2007-09-09 08:57, Grant Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the input gentlemen, > > > Interesting to that the question was posted by G(rant) and then > > > answered by G(ary), G(arrett) and G(iorgos)! (what are the odds!). > > > > Haha :) > > > > > Anywho, I am busily converting the script to perl as per the > > > suggestions. I use tcsh rarely, had I of known the quirks I woul shave > > > done it in perl from the beguining. > > > > > > As for Garrett's case method, it didnt work. Created a "case: Too many > > > arguments." error. Perhaps because it itself is nested in a 'foreach' > > > statement. > > > > `foreach' is a csh construct. If you copied the case/esac code posted > > by Garrett, then it wouldn't work. The syntax used by Garrett was for > > the Bourne shell (hence the /bin/sh reference above case). > > > > If you are going to convert everything to /bin/sh, you may as well > > convert it to Perl unless there is some very good reason to use only > > the pretty minimal data-structures supported by the Bourne shell > > (i.e. because you want to run the script in environments where Perl > > may be too much to require). > > Do any of you gents know if there is a converter that turns > Bo[u]rne (:-)) shell into perl? Years ago there was > commericalware (i Think) that took /bin/sh to C. Maybe Ii'm > mis-remembering. I've googled aroud and find zip, so maybe I > was in some kind of coma-zone. > > At any rate, for simple unix scripts, /bin/sh (aka "a-shell", ash) > or ksh or zsh is the way to go. Simple == a few lines. > For anything grittier, perl wins any time.
Perl looses when /usr isn't mounted. That's the primary argument against using anything other then /bin/sh (including bash). All the rest is preference. -- Mel _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"