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Posted by Lauri Raittila on 06/20/05 02:44
in alt.html, WCB wrote:
> Lauri Raittila wrote:
[lots of stuff snipped, please snip in future]
> >> I need to figure this out for the present
> >> directory, all subdirecties, and all files in them.
> >
> > Which you of course didn'tm mention orginally.
> I had hoped that would have been obvious.
Well, you didn't mention it, so I didn't give it a thought...
> I had thought somewhere on the web, I could find a repository of
> the simple and general atomic, basic bits and pieces to get these
> sorts of scripts written and working without having to reinvent
> the wheel.
There is. You just don't seem to find anything unless pointed.
> Nothing at all for a very basic walk a directory script.
You are looking wrong place. I have found them easily enough. They are
not in script archives, they are examples in manuals or tutorials. After
all, those things are the very basic stuff.
> Why does stuff like this always have to be so hard and time consuming?
Don't know.
> Welcome to the Linux/Unix world. We've all been doing it
> the hard way for 35 years and we aren't going to stop now.
Do you know why? Because "hard way" is so much more efficient than the
easy way. Describe how to do this job you wanted to do in windows using
one line? Ten lines? Might be possible using 100 lines...
> Perl is even worse.
I learned enough perl to do a text file to webpage conversion faster than
I would have converted one text file. I don't know what is hard for you,
but I think you are looking in bad places.
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