(new) Whither Scripting?

handy ssl command line howto - (boxley) - Feb. 19, 2009, 03:12:21 PM EST

curious, how long does it take for a competent java - (boxley) - (5) - Dec. 5, 2007, 02:39:21 PM EST

The question is... - (admin) - (1) - Dec. 5, 2007, 02:49:22 PM EST

well, its a submarine project at this point -NT - (boxley) - Dec. 5, 2007, 03:03:52 PM EST

PHP is a pretty simple language - (JayMehaffey) - Dec. 5, 2007, 04:25:29 PM EST

This is not hard to answer. - (static) - Dec. 5, 2007, 08:16:20 PM EST

Depends - (ubernostrum) - Dec. 5, 2007, 09:59:49 PM EST

why doesnt this work? - (boxley) - (3) - Aug. 5, 2007, 10:21:06 PM EDT

Clueless - (crazy) - (1) - Aug. 5, 2007, 11:00:42 PM EDT

trying to - (boxley) - Aug. 6, 2007, 08:21:08 AM EDT

fixed - (boxley) - Aug. 6, 2007, 10:31:55 AM EDT

problem with a shell script talking to an smtp service - (boxley) - (3) - May 8, 2007, 06:21:30 PM EDT

Um... - (static) - (2) - May 9, 2007, 01:19:20 AM EDT

the . works manually and I have tried it without quotes - (boxley) - May 9, 2007, 08:12:33 AM EDT

just retried with \\n \\r no joy -NT - (boxley) - May 9, 2007, 09:24:03 AM EDT

question on list parsing - (boxley) - (7) - March 19, 2007, 12:15:30 PM EDT

Dunno if this is easiest, but since you know awk - (admin) - (1) - March 19, 2007, 12:23:21 PM EDT

I was afraid someone would suggest that :-) -NT - (boxley) - March 19, 2007, 12:28:41 PM EDT

brainbrammage, here is the solution - (boxley) - (4) - March 19, 2007, 12:57:45 PM EDT

Ar... I always forget the simple way to do it ;-) -NT - (admin) - (2) - March 19, 2007, 01:56:30 PM EDT

Of course you forget, you only do OO AWK -NT - (drewk) - (1) - March 19, 2007, 02:22:57 PM EDT

Ha! -NT - (Another Scott) - March 19, 2007, 08:34:09 PM EDT

I was actually just about to suggest it. - (static) - March 19, 2007, 07:53:16 PM EDT

Looking for recommendations for a Javascript book - (lincoln) - (13) - March 9, 2007, 01:40:39 PM EST

JavaScript The Definitive Guide - (JayMehaffey) - (1) - March 9, 2007, 03:28:37 PM EST

Seconded - (ubernostrum) - March 9, 2007, 11:45:59 PM EST

Also. - (static) - (10) - March 10, 2007, 09:43:20 PM EST

It's "its". HTH! -NT - (CRConrad) - (9) - March 10, 2007, 05:23:22 AM EST

No, it doesn't help. It just annoys. -NT - (static) - (8) - March 10, 2007, 07:46:24 PM EST

Good. Learn from that, then. - (CRConrad) - (7) - March 10, 2007, 08:56:21 PM EST

Annoys you? :-) - (static) - (6) - March 10, 2007, 09:42:21 PM EST

OK, so was *that* one deliberate...? ;-) -NT - (admin) - (5) - March 10, 2007, 09:59:35 PM EST

You must be mistaken, I'm sure. - (Another Scott) - March 10, 2007, 11:03:36 PM EST

There was more than one. - (pwhysall) - (2) - March 11, 2007, 01:20:59 AM EST

iron or no sex? -NT - (boxley) - (1) - March 11, 2007, 12:00:09 PM EDT

Iron is a noun; ferrous is an adjective. Think a bit more. - (CRConrad) - March 11, 2007, 03:19:17 PM EDT

I'm not saying. -NT - (static) - March 11, 2007, 07:12:54 PM EDT

how to use / as a field separator with awk - (boxley) - (5) - March 8, 2007, 01:36:04 PM EST

Works as advertised. - (admin) - (4) - March 8, 2007, 01:44:55 PM EST

huh? why does $2 work if / is a field separator - (boxley) - (2) - March 8, 2007, 01:54:53 PM EST

never mind :-) too long a drive yesturday -NT - (boxley) - (1) - March 8, 2007, 02:01:23 PM EST

:-) - (admin) - March 8, 2007, 02:15:11 PM EST

I read that as 'two dollars' at first. - (static) - March 8, 2007, 07:29:57 PM EST

Help! How to programatically edit case of strings? - (CRConrad) - (24) - Dec. 11, 2006, 10:26:37 AM EST

Problem restated - (crazy) - (3) - Dec. 11, 2006, 10:38:29 AM EST

Particular - SOME tag, not any other tag. - (CRConrad) - (2) - Dec. 11, 2006, 03:53:22 PM EST

The ultimate clueless non-programmer wannabe approach - (crazy) - (1) - Dec. 11, 2006, 04:29:50 PM EST

Thanks a lot... (new thread) - (CRConrad) - Dec. 12, 2006, 08:25:36 AM EST

Well, in Squeak it would look something like - (tuberculosis) - Dec. 12, 2006, 09:13:09 PM EST

UltraEdit will do it. - (Another Scott) - Dec. 11, 2006, 04:42:57 PM EST

at risk of a war, do this - (boxley) - (16) - Dec. 11, 2006, 04:57:24 PM EST

alt-C, bay-bee. - (admin) - Dec. 11, 2006, 06:09:09 PM EST

Go ahead - (crazy) - (14) - Dec. 11, 2006, 06:48:22 PM EST

get vi'ed :-) I dont use that shite -NT - (boxley) - Dec. 11, 2006, 07:37:23 PM EST

Who the fsck writes LISP to use Emacs? -NT - (admin) - (12) - Dec. 11, 2006, 09:02:37 PM EST

Ok, fine. - (crazy) - (11) - Dec. 11, 2006, 09:21:40 PM EST

I need more of the problem specifics - (admin) - (9) - Dec. 12, 2006, 12:16:44 AM EST

Hope it's a single file - (crazy) - (8) - Dec. 12, 2006, 06:54:49 AM EST

As always, use the right tool for the job. - (admin) - (7) - Dec. 12, 2006, 10:21:34 AM EST

Bunch of text mungers - (tuberculosis) - (6) - Dec. 12, 2006, 01:47:49 PM EST

Er, come again? - (admin) - (4) - Dec. 12, 2006, 02:25:35 PM EST

thats our todd, no point manipulating some text - (boxley) - (1) - Dec. 12, 2006, 06:26:07 PM EST

Probably smaller than emacs, though :-P -NT - (admin) - Dec. 12, 2006, 10:18:52 PM EST

Eh? I did it in 3 lines. - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Dec. 12, 2006, 09:15:23 PM EST

Re: Eh? I did it in 3 lines. - (admin) - Dec. 12, 2006, 11:12:08 PM EST

emacs is xml? -NT - (boxley) - Dec. 12, 2006, 06:24:36 PM EST

Re: Ok, fine. - (admin) - Dec. 12, 2006, 12:24:14 AM EST

Thanks, Scotts. - (CRConrad) - Dec. 12, 2006, 08:38:28 AM EST

In file search and replace? - (JayMehaffey) - (8) - Dec. 9, 2006, 10:00:30 PM EST

I'd do something like this - (crazy) - Dec. 9, 2006, 10:31:01 PM EST

sed or awk - (ChrisR) - Dec. 9, 2006, 10:37:53 PM EST

cat filename | tr '\\\\' '/' > tmp; mv tmp filename - (tuberculosis) - Dec. 10, 2006, 12:48:10 AM EST

YAAnswer - (Yendor) - (3) - Dec. 10, 2006, 09:36:09 AM EST

Hey that's nifty. - (static) - Dec. 10, 2006, 06:55:00 PM EST

Thanks - (JayMehaffey) - (1) - Dec. 10, 2006, 10:45:33 PM EST

Just add the "g" modifier to the sed script - (Yendor) - Dec. 10, 2006, 11:08:53 PM EST

Late to the party, but have you tried "tidy"? - (a6l6e6x) - Dec. 17, 2006, 09:43:24 PM EST

Quick bash script help needed - (inthane-chan) - (12) - July 18, 2006, 06:56:05 PM EDT

find . -type f -exec chmod 774 '{}' #untested -NT - (ben_tilly) - (11) - July 18, 2006, 07:23:06 PM EDT

find . -type f -print | xargs chmod 774 #untested/same thing -NT - (Yendor) - (9) - July 18, 2006, 10:13:30 PM EDT

Mine is safer (newlines in filenames) -NT - (ben_tilly) - (8) - July 19, 2006, 12:33:25 AM EDT

Mine is bigger - (Yendor) - (7) - July 19, 2006, 08:48:28 AM EDT

Who uses a newline in a filename? - (ben_tilly) - (6) - July 19, 2006, 01:24:20 PM EDT

Why? - (drewk) - (5) - July 19, 2006, 01:38:24 PM EDT

'find' starts a process for each iteration of exec - (admin) - (4) - July 19, 2006, 01:59:11 PM EDT

I don't follow - (drewk) - (3) - July 19, 2006, 02:10:48 PM EDT

Exact opposite. - (admin) - (2) - July 19, 2006, 02:18:33 PM EDT

Not necessarily a *single* string - (ben_tilly) - July 19, 2006, 02:22:34 PM EDT

Okay, makes sense - (drewk) - July 19, 2006, 02:25:44 PM EDT

Thanks. - (inthane-chan) - July 19, 2006, 03:07:29 PM EDT

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