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Recently I’ve been exploring back Perl. I loved it many years ago and today I just need “glue”. It seems to be quite fast, can escape UNIX-Linux idiosyncrasies
by xlii 2y ago
Recently I’ve been exploring back Perl. I loved it many years ago and today I just need “glue”.
It seems to be quite fast, can escape UNIX-Linux idiosyncrasies and I still can see all the magic variables in the code after those years.
Maybe it’s better to just get back into Perl instead of figuring out how to pipe back to back to few applications and jq on top?
- kamaal 2y agoIf you are using Bash, you probably need to use Perl. Python unfortunately doesn't shine where Perl is good at. Mostly of the command line work involves passing around adhoc text, parsing and using it. You are better off using a language designed to do that very task than use something else.