No kidding, but in that "other OS" the answer to the question "how can I create that report" is usually "You can't unless you spend money for a third-party application".
----- Original Message ----- From: "m roth" m.roth@5-cent.us To: "centos" centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 12:27:28 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] Bash help
Warren Young wrote:
On Oct 25, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Leroy Tennison leroy@datavoiceint.com wrote:
Although "not my question", thanks, I learned a lot about array processing from your example.
Yeah, it’s amazing how many obscure corners of the Bash language must be tapped to solve such a simple problem. I count 7 features in that script that I almost never use, because I’d have just written this one in Perl if not required to write it in Bash by the OP.
<snip> Let me say this: among the many reasons I like *Nix: in any other o/s, it's "how co I create this report, and it takes from 2 days to 2 weeks. In *Nix, it's "of all the ways I can create this report, how would I *prefer* to do it...."
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