Why questions don't get answered, or "No, I've already RTFM, tell me the answer!"

[Mike McCarty]

Charles Howse wrote:
>>On Thursday 29 December 2005 22:36, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 21:07, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>

[snip]

>>The help I have received on one list or another has often been far
>>more clearly and concisely stated than the manpages for bash that I
>>have printed out and bound, and read from end to end probably 30 times
>>now.
>>
>>I rest my case.
> 
> 
> I feel your pain, my friend.
> I've been scripting bash for quite a while.
> Maybe I can contribute something to this thread, here's my list of bookmarks
> for bash scripting:
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/toc.htm
> http://cfaj.freeshell.org/shell/
> http://www.shelldorado.com/
> http://home.comcast.net/~j.p.h/cus-faq.html
> http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt
> http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/sedfaq.html
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part1/
> http://www.shelldorado.com/goodcoding/cmdargs.html
> http://www.macobserver.com/tips/macosxcl101/
> http://www.wagoneers.com/UNIX/FIND/find-usage.html
> http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/bashref.html
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ 

Which is why, my friends, when I need a quickie one-off I
*never* write a script. My longest scripts are no more than
20 lines or so. As soon as I need an "if" I switch to C
and write in a language which is documented, understandable, and
portable between systems.

When I left the IBM mainframe world in 1981 I left JCL behind,
and have never looked back. Writing long involved scripts is
a throw-back to the Jurassic age. Join the 21st Century and
abandon shell scripts.

Just my $0.02 worth.

Mike
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