On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Ron Youvan wrote:
> > That's great then!
> > Does BASH have it's own scripting language or is it
> > PERL? Both?
>
> Just my opinion here, MS DOS's batch language is a
> subset of UNIX scripting language, which is basically the
> same as Basic, but with two differences. (that I am aware
> of)
>
> First: there is only integer math.
I am not aware of any floating-point capabilities in sh, bash, ksh, or
pdksh. AFAIK, you have to use external programs for that. ICBW; do you
know of any? Is it a recent development?
> I love and recommend "O'reilly's bash scripting book", get the latest
> edition that has been printed. Many commands and some "things" are quite
> obscure and many are not at all "self explanatory"
>
> Example:
>
> FileName=${1%.*}.xmp
>
> This creates a variable (FileName) from the first command
> line parameter with the extension changed from any to .xmp
> it's one of those "keep the book
Or man page. I know that you can replace leading or trailing substrings in
bash; I always forget if it's # or %, so I have to search for %% (easier to
type than \#\#) in 'man bash'.
> on your knee until you have enough examples in /usr/local/bin to use as
> references.
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