05-14-2010
More and more of what I'm doing is advanced manipulation of data, so I'm using awk/sed/grep/whatever to bend my data and do things with it, I just have this nagging feeling with bash that I'm reaching the end of it's capability (and what it was intended for) and I may need to go some direction. I learned C a little bit and also python, C seemed like you had to write a lot more code (definitely just my opinion, don't know whether it's based on anything) to get a given job done. Python was nice, but I have this nagging feeling it wasn't going to scale down to bash and also up to web apps, at least not yet, though I guess there's a pretty active community hacking it right now. I like Java, but I'm not sure it has the flexibility of perl (another opinion of mine, possibly based on nothing), so I thought I'd possibly learn and use perl for a couple years, get some things done with it, and then look at python/java/whatever again. My theory is that the perl code I'd build could be made to "interface" with whatever language I may choose then, so I wouldn't lose anything, as long as I comment whatever I'm doing in my perl scripts. Feel free to correct any of my assumptions, I don't want to waste a couple of years. The comments so far have been VERY helpful, I appreciate both sides very much, it helps me make a better choice.
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xsil2graphics
XSIL2GRAPHICS(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation XSIL2GRAPHICS(1)
NAME
xsil2graphics - generate scripts to load xsil output data files
SYNOPSIS
xsil2graphics [options] <xsil_file>
DESCRIPTION
Utility program bundled with xmds, used to generate scripts that load simulation output data into either matlab (http://www.mathworks.com)
or scilab (http://www.scilab.org), which are then used to manipulate the results further if necessary and then to present the results
graphically.
Matlab
To generate a matlab m-file, from the xsil file data_file.xsil use the command:
bash$ xsil2graphics data_file.xsil
or
bash$ xsil2graphics --matlab data_file.xsil
Then at the matlab command prompt:
>> data_file
Scilab
To generate a scilab script file, from the xsil file data_file.xsil use the command:
bash$ xsil2graphics --scilab data_file.xsil
Then at the scilab command prompt:
--> exec('data_file.sci')
OPTIONS
-m, --matlab generate matlab m-file script to load data from the xsil data file (the default option)
-s, -scilab generate scilab script file to load data from the xsil data file
-o, --outfile <out_file> specify an alternative output script filename to the default which is the input xsil filename with the .xsil
extension changed to either .m for the matlab m-file or .sci for the scilab script file
EXAMPLES
bash$ xsil2graphics nlse.xsil
Generates the output nlse.m to load the data into matlab
bash$ xsil2graphics -m nlse.xsil
Also generates the output nlse.m but explicitly sets matlab to be the output format
bash$ xsil2graphics --scilab nlse.xsil
Generates the output nlse.sci to load the data into scilab
bash$ xsil2graphics --outfile nlse_new.m nlse.xsil
Generates the output nlse_new.m to load the data into matlab
AUTHORS
Originally written by Greg Collecutt
Maintained by Paul Cochrane with code contributed by Joe Hope
BUGS
No known bugs.
SEE ALSO
xmds(1), loadxsil(1)
http://www.xmds.org
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2000-2004
Code contributed by Greg Collecutt, Joseph Hope and Paul Cochrane
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
perl v5.8.2 2004-06-21 XSIL2GRAPHICS(1)