[wellylug] Help in finding a good technical/Linux related bookstore

[Cliff Pratt]

Usually you only need to know the entrails of an install script if 
something goes wrong.

Cheers,

Cliff

nic wrote:
 >
> Certainly my approach to shell scripting is that anything that starts 
> going over about 20 lines gets turned in to a Python script.
> 
> As for your other point about whether sed and awk are needed for a 
> server install, I think that almost invariably they are required, 
> because start scripts and utilities often need them, probably for just 
> the sort of thing you;re talking about (because the scripts were written 
> before Python was widely used...
> 
>>  
>> The other reason that i wanted to learn sed and awk is because i 
>> wanted to get into some serious shell scripting. I was under the 
>> impression that for shell scripting, sed, awk and regular expressions 
>> were 'need to knows' for a shell script writing. But perhaps a basic 
>> understanding of sed and awk is all that is needed, and the use of 
>> perl or python would be better for the more complex processing?
>>