Four features that justify a new Unix shell

Re:Four features that justify a new Unix shell by esaym on Saturday October 24, 2020 @12:58PM (#24880408)

Space was because HN uses it as italics and I don't know the escape. And yes there are cleaner ways, but the point was a real world example of having something not work out in pure shell but yet quickly barfing out something working with perl. And yes, looks like I didn't escape the dot, funny!

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Re:Four features that justify a new Unix shell by sergeykish on Sunday October 25, 2020 @08:58AM (#24885954)

Got it. Sure, I like one liners and I like piping. Ruby is strongly influenced by Perl:

    $ find . -iname '*.ogg' | ruby -nle 'puts $1 if $_ =~ /\/([\w-]+\.\w\w\w)$/'

I think the reason people badmouth Perl is because it is safe. People claim PHP improved but all I can see is language without design. JavaScript has lots of bad parts and we should not talk about them. I like AWK matchers though not its functions. I am not familiar with Perl but it is designed.

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