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Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath

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Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> writes:

>     The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH)
>
>               == Motivation ==
>
> The shell is not known for powerful string processing. Seasoned
> programmers use various combinations of sed, awk, cut and others to
> perform the more sophisticated transformations, or sacrifice portability
> by using their shell's extensions, like arrays. But calls to external
> utilities and use of shell extensions are often not needed. Knowing what
> the POSIX shell can do may turn a slow non-portable script into a
> blazingly fast and portable hacker's delight. The goal is to show the
> absurdity of forking and nonportable constructs when a nice and small
> pure shell solution solves the problem just as well.

I spent some thoughts on this because I was interested in at least
having a general idea how a solution could look like. OTOH, the reason
why I work in miserably paid programming jobs is essentially because I
enjoy solving software problems a lot more than dicksizing contests.

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The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-19 17:23 +0000
  Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr> - 2011-08-19 18:13 +0000
    Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-19 19:12 +0000
      Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath pk <pk@pk.invalid> - 2011-08-19 21:14 +0200
        Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-19 19:29 +0000
          Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath pk <pk@pk.invalid> - 2011-08-19 21:37 +0200
            Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-19 20:04 +0000
              Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath pk <pk@pk.invalid> - 2011-08-19 22:25 +0200
                Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-19 21:08 +0000
  Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-08-19 19:58 +0100
    Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-19 19:23 +0000
      Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-08-19 22:18 +0100
  Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Stephane CHAZELAS <Stephane.CHAZELAS@free.fr> - 2011-08-20 20:07 +0000
    Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net> - 2011-08-21 10:43 +0000
    Re: The First Pure Shell Contest (PUSH): relativepath Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-08-21 15:14 +0100
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