[clug] Bash questions...

[Sam Couter]

David Deaves <David.Deaves at dd.id.au> wrote:
> There are some very cool things you can do with strings in modern bash, you 
> almost never need to fork to some other more capable program (sed, expr, awk ...)

Did you forget Perl?

> of interest the old standards basename and dirname are easily re-implemented 
> with the  "${path##*/}" (the single arg usage)  and  "${path%/*}".

To come back to Angus' quote, "basename" and "dirname" are more
meaningful than those blobs of line noise. You need to wrap them in
well-named functions.

> all fork free.

fork on Linux is so cheap we've probably already expended more electrons
discussing it than the average script will save over a lifetime using it.
Measure before optimising.
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Sam Couter         |  mailto:sam at couter.id.au
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