<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Michael Potter" <michael@potter.name><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, October 22, 2016 4:36:15 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Bash vs Perl<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr">Chris,<br><div>Did you attend my bash presentation several years ago?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No. </div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><br>I wrote it after struggling with how unreliable bash is compared to Perl. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I guess I'd be interested in the definition of "unreliable". </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I get nailed all the time about my compares. I am probably just ignorant of the correct methods.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>I can give the presentation again on goto meeting or at an ALE meeting. I am booked for the rest of the year, but I can do it next year.</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" data-mce-href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">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;" data-mce-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;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><div>Not a rant or question, just a thought.</div><br><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><br><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"><span class="HOEnZb"><span color="#888888" data-mce-style="color: #888888;" style="color: #888888;"><br></span></span></span><div>Chris</div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br> Ale mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Michael Potter<br> Tapp Solutions, LLC</div><div><a href="http://www.tappsolutions.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.tappsolutions.com">www.tappsolutions.com</a><br>+1 770 815 6142 ** Atlanta ** <a href="mailto:michael@potter.name" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:michael@potter.name">michael@potter.name</a> ** <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpotter" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpotter">www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpotter</a></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br></blockquote></div></div></body></html>