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- Path: sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!blekul11!ffaac09
- Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
- Date: Friday, 21 Aug 1992 18:22:51 +02
- From: Paul Bijnens <FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Message-ID: <92234.182251FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: Changing file names
- References: <ac#n06l.bosak@netcom.com> <ceYpFNG00VoxBKON4O@andrew.cmu.edu>
- <1992Aug20.104721.28955@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
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- In article <1992Aug20.104721.28955@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>, ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz
- (Thomas Koenig) says:
- >
- >jf41+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan R. Ferro) writes:
- >
- >>bosak@netcom.com (Jon Bosak) writes:
- >>> [ file name conversion: xyz920815a ==> 920815a ]
- >>>
- >>> Who can provide the most elegant solution using just the basic Unix
- >>> tools (cp, mv, sed, awk, sh, csh)?
- >
- >[perl script deleted]
- >
- >>Unless, of course, you don't consider perl to be a "basic" Unix tool, in
- >>which case you're hopelessly behind the times. :-)
- >
- >On the day when all the systems I use run perl, I'll be happy to use
- >that script, but I lack the disk space and the time to install perl
- >myself. And no, I get to see the new day earlier than most people at the
- >moment :-)
-
- Ah, that's why I can walk in at my work about an hour later than
- the rest of my collegues. I use perl, they don't have the time
- to learn it. :-)
- --
- Paul Bijnens
- Linguistics dept., K. University Leuven, Belgium
- Polleke@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
-