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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting perl vs shell scripts Post 302158198 by gus2000 on Monday 14th of January 2008 06:17:30 PM
Old 01-14-2008
Perl is quite elegant at doing many things, such as parsing/regurgitating output. If you just need to batch-rename a couple of files, well then even csh can do that!

I will, on occasion, use a perl one-liner to save myself many lines of code. Sometimes it's even to accomplish something impossible (or nearly) with the shell.

PERL One Liners
 

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purple-url-handler(1)						   User Commands					     purple-url-handler(1)

NAME
purple-url-handler - Python script to handle URL with purple SYNOPSIS
purple-url-handler [-URL] DESCRIPTION
Python script to handle URL with purple. OPTIONS
Usage: purple-url-handler URL Example: purple-url-handler "xmpp:romeo@montague.net?message" ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-im-client | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
purple-remote(1), purple-send(1), purple-send-async(1), attributes(5) purple-url-handler Manual, http://pidgin.im/ NOTES
Updated by Lei Ju, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006, 2007. SunOS 5.11 02 Apr 2008 purple-url-handler(1)
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