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From: Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: lisp scripts
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 11:07:43 -0500
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zara <johan@freecol.be> writes:

> Hi,
>
> wanted to learn shell using sed and awk as in the O'Reilly book.
>
> I am working on scripts in Common Lisp using shell inside,
> here's the link to the code, it's GPL2 :
>
> http://sf.net/projects/lisp-scripts

Didn't look.

I once spent a week converting a LOT of sed/awk to Perl.
I turned a complicated mess into something any programmer
could readily understand.  (And actually worked.)

Now I'd use Python.


-- 
Dan Espen