REXX equivalent in (Ubuntu) Linux?

[Fabio FZero]

Agreed. But every time I have to do complex string manipulations in bash, I
want to kill myself.

Hence Python (or Ruby).

- FZ

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 13:59, Peter <plpeter2006-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Fabio FZero <fabio.fzero at ...> writes:
> > I have to say this: os.path.walk saved my life a couple of times when I
> worked
> > with mobile content.
>
> Usually anything written in Python in 100LOC can be written in Bash in 3
> lines.
> Apart from that man ftw(3) lets you do it even in C.
> Py is a great scripting language but it excels at large projects (such as
> Blender), not at nitty-gritty shell work.
>
> -- Peter
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