In article <mailman.1944.1265367378.28905.python-l...@python.org>, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >On 4 Feb 2010 16:18:04 -0800, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) declaimed the >following in gmane.comp.python.general: >> >> But in bash scripting, you'd just use rsync or cp or rm -- maybe an >> example would make clearer how REXX differs from bash. > > I suspect the only really good examples would have to written under >OS/VMS (where it originated, written to be a more powerful & friendlier >replacement for the EXEC scripting language) or AmigaOS -- to >demonstrate the switching interaction of command handlers. REXX >implementations for Windows and Linux pretty much only support the >"shell" as a command handler, whereas the two named OS could address >editors (and on the Amiga, word processors, desktop publishing programs, >terminal emulators/comm programs, system editor). > > My Amiga's been in storage since Win95 days, so this is a fictitious >example based on the reference manuals. > >address command /* use normal command shell to process commands */ >file = 'some.file' >'run ed' file /* start ED editor in background, editing 'file'*/ >address ED /* send commands to the ED instance */ >'b' /* go to bottom of file */ >'i /text to be inserted before bottom line/' >'t' /* to to top */ >'a /text inserted after first line/' >find = 'needle' >replace = 'thorn' >'rpe /' || find || '/' || replace '/' >'x' /* save & exit */ >address command >'type' file /* type file to screen */ >'filenote' file "edited via AREXX script"
IOW, kinda like AppleScript? -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ import antigravity -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
