[Cialug] Quick scripting

[Tony Bibbs]

Sorry for not noticing you saying that earlier.  Was on vacation last 
week so I haven't dug out of all the email yet.

Yeah, I like using PHP particularly at work as I usually hook-up PHPDoc 
to produce documentation for the sys admins. I'm sure by know Perl 
probably has something similar.

--Tony

David Champion wrote:
> I mentioned earlier in the thread that I'd done a little PHP shell 
> scripting, but not much.
> 
> Ideally it would be nice to make use of common PHP libraries between web 
>  & cmd line scripts. I usually get lazy and create PHP web pages that I 
> then call with a wget or something. Then I don't have to worry about 
> having the php cmdline version available...
> 
> -dc
> 
> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> 
>> I'm not doing it at the moment, but if I needed to write larger shell
>> scripts I would definitely do them in php.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 12:51, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>
>>> Am I the only one scripting with PHP?  Most on this list probably 
>>> know you can do it but I seldom see many PHP shell scripts.  I know 
>>> one of the issues is that Perl is generally included with most 
>>> flavors of *nix but anymore the same seems to be the same with PHP.
>>>
>>> I'm not meaning to start a flame war  on PHP vs Perl, just curious if 
>>> others do it.
>>>
>>> --Tony
>>>
>>> David Stout wrote:
>>>
>>>> WOW thank you, I have this web site book marked these are great 
>>>> things to know  as I take on my new position. I will of course be 
>>>> bouncing a few questions off to you guys here and there as the road 
>>>> become a little rough.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again,
>>>>
>>>> */Kenneth Ristau <kristau at kristau.net>/* wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    Josh More wrote:
>>>>     > I *strongly* recommend the book _Learning Perl_
>>>>     > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnperl4/
>>>>     >
>>>>     > Once you've read that one cover to cover and done all the
>>>>    examples, read
>>>>     > _Programming Perl_ cover to cover.
>>>>     > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pperl3/
>>>>
>>>>    And once you've digested enough of those two and are looking for a
>>>>    handy, online reference, check out http://www.perlmonks.org
>>>>
>>>>    later,
>>>>    kristau
>>>>    --    Tired programmer
>>>>    Coding late into the night
>>>>    The core dump follows
>>>>
>>>>    My GNUPG public key is available at
>>>>    http://www.kristau.net/public_key.asc
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>>>>
>>>> David Stout
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