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Posted by WCB on 06/20/05 10:16
Lauri Raittila wrote:
> in alt.html, WCB wrote:
>> Lauri Raittila wrote:
> [lots of stuff snipped, please snip in future]
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>> >> 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.
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>> I had hoped that would have been obvious.
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> 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.
I find lots of stuff. Just not what I am looking
for.
>> Nothing at all for a very basic walk a directory script.
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> 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.
>
I have lots of manuals and I don't find them there.
>> 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.
I have a tack of boosk I desperately don't want to pore over ubntil I know
enough Perl to reinvent the wheel.
That is what I am faced with.
I am looking for wheels.
>
>
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