Posted by: Anonymous
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on December 27, 2008 08:31 AM
Because Perl, Python and Ruby are better at string processing than shell scripts.
They have built-in regular expressions, built-in ranges (similar to seq 0 10), can iterate over matched patterns/lines/characters and allow you to do more complex programming (such as OOP or semi-functional) if you need to.
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Re(1): Why do people still write shell scripts?
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 71.32.249.43] on December 27, 2008 08:31 AMThey have built-in regular expressions, built-in ranges (similar to seq 0 10), can iterate over matched patterns/lines/characters and allow you to do more complex programming (such as OOP or semi-functional) if you need to.
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