[olug] sed issues inside of a script

[Jay Hannah]

On Nov 13, 2007, at 4:57 PM, John Hobbs wrote:
> As a related aside, is there a good document with best practices for
> shell scripting? My Google prowess failed me on that aspect. A book
> would do as well.  I've just sorta picked this stuff up along the way
> and I'd like to read over the "right" ways to do things.

I'm too lazy to keep track of what shell does what, so I just write a  
little perl program that works the same way everywhere. I'm forced to  
work on lots of different shells on new and ancient *nix boxes, but  
Perl is everywhere I go, so I can do whatever needs doing.

This is the only book I needed for the first 6 months of learning  
programming (1993?):

Learning Perl, O'Reilly
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/

I don't know what actual problem you were trying to solve, so I  
couldn't throw a Perl version in the ring.  :)

Good luck!

j
Omaha Perl Mongers: http://omaha.pm.org
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