Cool, thanks for that. I'll also look into using that approch. The basic stuff that I'm currently looking into are things like: 1. Searching for files and their versions. (If it's not installed or does not exist download it if required) 2. Editing *.ini's and the like. (Add/remove/replace that sort of stuff) 3. To basically AUTOMATE it all. To name a few. Perl looks like it may be the way to go. And I do have a lot of learning to do in that area. But it will be worth it in the long run. (I hope :-) ) Wolf -----Original Message----- From: Jay Crews [mailto:jpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, 27 March 2003 5:05 PM To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Editor Documentation Wolfgang Gill writes.... > > Thanks for that, it was EXACTLY was I was looking for. I'd also assume > that these commands and functions can be used in scripting?? Without > any trouble? Well......not exactly. Or not really for writing scripts like I think you are talking about. However, you will see similarities in some of the commands and tools like 'sed.' I think it has something to do with 'ed' commands, which vi is a frontend, or something........Someone with more history info can probably explain better. But similarities in sed like s/STRING1/STRING2/g are the exact same as if you do them on the command prompt in vi. But only a few of them. And most metacharacters are respected. I may [WILL] get some argument here but......10 years ago the way to write scripts was learn awk, sed, and as many unix commands as you can and put them together in a bourne shall script and run it. But if you are starting out today, and want to write some scripts, you will do yourself well to learn Perl. NOW, before I get attacked here......that in NO WAY suggests that ignore the VERY useful commands like grep, cut, sort, tr, sed, find, and all the useful redirects, pipes, etc. However, Perl can do pretty much anything that the awk/sed combination can do, and you can learn Perl in about the same time as learning both sed and awk. PLUS, anything you cannot do with a Perl command, you can invoke a shell command and pull the results back into Perl to process. AND.....Perl makes string parsing a piece of cake, whereas it's a NIGHTMARE doing much of it with just regular unix commands piped together. And Perl is VERY portable, and here to stay. -- Jay Crews jpc@xxxxxxxxxxxx ###################################################################### Attention: This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal www.marshalsoftware.com ###################################################################### -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
