Bash Programming

Peter L. Peres plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 20 14:27:14 UTC 2004


On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:24:03AM -0400, Devin Whalen wrote
>
>> Thanks for the help everyone.  I finally sat down and learned bash
>> yesterday.  Now I don't have to run to perl when a small bash script
>> would suffice.  In fact I just wrote one just now that is going to
>> save me a lot of time :).
>
>  perl is an OK operating system, but it lacks a lightweight programming
> language <g>.

Isn't bash the third stage bootstrap program that starts up the emacs or 
perl operating systems ? ;-)

The memory footprint and startup time of a simple script like 'hello, 
world' would do any VB version full honors. ;-(

Peter
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