<div dir="ltr">I think that the Bourne shell itself had great success largely because of its easy but powerful language. Bash is backwards compatible, so if you learn to program with Bourne shell all your scripts work with bash but also with dash, ash, and others.<div><br></div><div>There is a great book by Blinn if you are interested in trying this take on the situation.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Portable-Shell-Programming-Extensive-Collection/dp/0134514947/">https://smile.amazon.com/Portable-Shell-Programming-Extensive-Collection/dp/0134514947/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>By the time I really need bash features, it's usually already time to move to something like perl, C, Go, etc.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Chris Fowler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com" target="_blank">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div>Not a rant or question, just a thought.</div><div><br></div><div>I've been working on "Jenga Linux" and since I do not have many perl modules until later in the build of LFS 7.10 I'm sticking to bash as much as possible. GNU STOW is an exception, but it uses perl in /tools from chapter 5 until it can be installed in chapter 6. Beyond that , the only perl module in chapter 5 is XML::Parser. I could install all modules needed in /tools and use them in chapter 6, but I'm forcing myself to expand my bash experience by using what most other disti creators use. </div><div><br></div><div>It would nice to find a book titled: "Bash for Perl Programmers". Very simple tasks I do in Perl are a struggle in bash. Stack Exchange is not short on answers. </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Chris</div></font></span></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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