You can.. Regina Rexx is available on SLES/RH distros or downloadable from the web.. IBM OORexx is open source and available as well.
I've weaned myself off of it on Linux for the most part - but when I first became a penguin trainer, using it let me be immediately productive. Scott Rohling On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] < [email protected]> wrote: > Still learning this stuff. Wish I could write it in Rexx, now that I know. > > Bobby Bauer > Center for Information Technology > National Institutes of Health > Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 > 301-594-7474 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shane [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 6:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Need a little help with a Linux script > > awk (particularly GNU awk) is as flexible as your would generally > require. If you use it's capabilities you could save a lot of > seemingly redundant re-processing of the data. > I might be inclined to feed the mpstat straight into the read loop and > mangle it all with one awk call (per line). No grep, cut - even the > echo could probably go if you get a little creative. > > Each to their own. > > Shane ... > > On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 17:21:53 -0500 > "Bauer, Bobby wrote: > > > Thanks but since I'm not familiar with perl I'll stick with awk. I'll > > look at skipping the grep stage. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
