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- From: ash@ulysses.mr.ams.com (Alan Harder)
- Subject: Re: Octal chmod status
- In-Reply-To: Tom Christiansen's message of Thu, 20 Aug 1992 02:50:36 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:53:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.025036.12745@news.eng.convex.com> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes:
-
- >From the keyboard of jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur):
- >:Why is this person continually annoying people with information about perl ???
-
- >Like stress, annoyance in internally not externally generated.
- >I merely offer solutions. If you don't like them, and it upsets
- >you, then you bring this on yourself.
-
- >:Please excuse my ignorance but is perl a shell ????? is this not
- >:comp.unix.shell ?? I may be wrong but *who* want to be pestered with
- >:perl tidbits ?? I don't, if I did I would join a perl newsgroup ??
-
- >In a shell discussions, you expect to hear solutions suggesting
- >tools like sed, awk, tr, sort, and their ilk. Perl is just
- >another one of these, albeit more functional.
-
- >I try to propose the right solution, irrespective of its parentage.
- >Often tasks aren't implementable in sh alone, but since this is a
- >shell newsgroup, as you've pointed out, I try very hard to avoid
- >writing the answer in C.
-
- >I will excuse your ignorance for this post alone. In penitence,
- >however, you get to read the perl FAQ, which I shall send in the mail.
-
- >You're welcome.
-
- Maybe this thread belongs on alt.talk.religion. Believe me, many
- people out there think we're *all* crazy for working with *unix* boxes.
- This problem would obviously be easier to solve in cobol on an AS400
- machine ;-).
-