[Cialug] Quick scripting

[Jerry Weida]

I used to use PHP for shell scripting because it was what I knew best, but 
then I learned ksh/bash and perl and I find that those generally work 
better. I can get many things done more "natively" than using several "exec" 
and "system" commands. I also like Perl's text matching/parsing (read: 
regex) functions better.

On 8/22/05, Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com> wrote: 
> 
> For me it's what I know best. I'd hesitate to give any real advantages
> since both are quite capable. I personally find Perl harder to read but
> that too is attributed to the fact I don't know it very well.
> 
> David Stout wrote:
> > Other than web programming what would be the advantage of using PHP over
> > perl?
> >
> > */Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com>/* wrote:
> >
> > 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 /* 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
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