Shell Scripting

[Doug O'Leary]

sorry for the multiple responses... I seem to be having problems accessing itrc site...

Doug

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Doug, no problem. It of course depends on which environment you work in.
My environment arises the *need* to be portable across OS's (HP-UX, AIX, Linux, Cygwin, Win32), and accross databases (Oracle, Unify, postgres, Mysql), so you learn to program in a very defensive style, and never use system calls if either modules or builtins are available that enable you to do the same in a portable way.

My job is to be alert to any of these hidden questions and problems in questions from customers. "Can you please do A for me?" And they mean "B", but we should have known, as they always do so :) (wink wink)

If I interview someone on unix knowledge, I most of the time do not expect a `real' answer. I expect either the questions I asked, or a question like "what does the company prefer? bash, awk, sed, perl, csh, python?"
As Hein said: It's a dead horse. There are a zillion options to `fix' it or deal with it. It's just the question of how to do it reliable and the way no new errors arise.

Happy hacking!

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[Virumandi]

Thanks to all of you...
The query has been resolved a little Earlier..

But I didnt updated the Ticket.But however I found that it became one of the interesting topic for the people to Talk..

Good...

Regards
Suseendran .A