An agent or agents purporting to be Greg Rundlett (freephile) said:
I liked this post which in summary is a reminder of the Unix Philosophy
http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html
~95% of my coworkers would benefit from reading this essay.
Right now they are busy setting up a
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:37 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
An agent or agents purporting to be Greg Rundlett (freephile) said:
I liked this post which in summary is a reminder of the Unix Philosophy
http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html
Some of it reminds me of
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 10:04 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote:
An agent or agents purporting to be Greg Rundlett (freephile) said:
I liked this post which in summary is a reminder of the Unix
Philosophy
http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html
Some of it reminds me of Jon
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes:
An agent or agents purporting to be Greg Rundlett (freephile) said:
I liked this post which in summary is a reminder of the Unix Philosophy
http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html
~95% of my coworkers would benefit from reading this
Lloyd Kvam writes:
I do agree with his basic point. Use the system tools to glue your
processing into a series of simple steps.
Shell scripts are very powerful. I don't take anybody seriously who
thinks otherwise.
I wrote a shell script once that automated an extremely tedious (took
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 15:53 -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
My boss later told me that he estimated that this shell script saved
the company well over a half-a-million dollars.
Later, after my night of feverish shell-script hacking, I rewrote the
script in Perl (because 3000-line shell scripts
