Agreed. But every time I have to do complex string manipulations in bash, I want to kill myself.<div><br></div><div>Hence Python (or Ruby).</div><div><br></div><div>- FZ<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 13:59, Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:plpeter2006@yahoo.com">plpeter2006-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Fabio FZero <fabio.fzero@...> writes:<br>
> I have to say this: os.path.walk saved my life a couple of times when I worked<br>
> with mobile content.<br>
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Usually anything written in Python in 100LOC can be written in Bash in 3 lines.<br>
Apart from that man ftw(3) lets you do it even in C.<br>
Py is a great scripting language but it excels at large projects (such as<br>
Blender), not at nitty-gritty shell work.<br>
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-- Peter<br>
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