Hi, personally I'd say they both equally powerfull in general (I think both a touring complete which makes them both full grown programming languages - correct me if i'm wrong)
depending on the job i use one over the other. If it would be a python script only spawning OS processes it might be a lot easier with bash. on the other hand if there's number/string parsing involved i can do a lot better with python YMMV. /martin On 8/14/07, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-08-14 09:32:44 -0400, Steven R. wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:03:05PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > > So what's the right way to do this? I hacked one together the other > > > day: > > > > > > IFS=$'\t\n'; for i in `find . -iname \*m4a`; do faad... blah blah blah > > > > > > and I knew it was a hack because setting $IFS just seems > > > bad... possible unintended consquences, but it worked. > > > > > > > I have seen something like the following: > > > > find | while read FILE; > > do echo "$FILE" > > done > > which is almost as bad, as filenames can have \n characters in them. > That's why "find" has -print0... Unfortunately the "read" builtin > doesn't seem to support this feature (or anyone knows how to use > its -d option to declare \0 as the delimiter?). > > -- > Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> > 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> > Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mycorners.com https://www.xing.com/profile/Martin_Marcher http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinmarcher http://www.studivz.net/profile.php?ids=9f83ea8c5996b8ec http://www.amazon.de/gp/registry/wishlist/3KDAGCL2NKOIM/ref=reg_hu-wl_goto-registry/302-4432803-5146435?ie=UTF8&sort=date-added
