[CentOS] [OT] Bash help

[Leroy Tennison]

Not enough experience with the mainframe: I meant WinDoze.

----- Original Message -----
From: "m roth" <m.roth at 5-cent.us>
To: "centos" <centos at centos.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 1:02:54 PM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] Bash help

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> 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".
>
"Other", singluar? Did you mean WinDoze, or on an IBM mainframe, or...?

     mark "been around the block"

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "m roth" <m.roth at 5-cent.us>
> To: "centos" <centos at 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 at 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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