OT: Good Linux script book ?
Andre Costa
andre.ocosta at terra.com.br
Sat Nov 4 20:51:05 UTC 2006
On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:12:02 -0700
Kim Lux <lux at diesel-research.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 11:51 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> > Keep in mind that shell makes a great wrapper for starting other
> > programs and gluing any number of them together, but usually
> > isn't the best choice for anything that needs a lot of
> > calculation or data storage.
>
> I've got a ton of data files to process. Nothing difficult, just time
> consuming. I want something quick, simple and light.
Sounds a perfect task for Lua [www.lua.org]. Used it a lot of times for
this very same purpose, fits like a glove. It's pretty easy and
powerful.
Regards,
Andre
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Andre Oliveira da Costa
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