Personal computing discussed
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wibeasley wrote:Whoah, what happened to grep, sed, awk and friends? What's with all this new fangled stuff? Now get off my lawn!programming languages with Regular Expressions (e.g., Python, Perl, Java, .NET...)?
notfred wrote:wibeasley wrote:Whoah, what happened to grep, sed, awk and friends? What's with all this new fangled stuff? Now get off my lawn!programming languages with Regular Expressions (e.g., Python, Perl, Java, .NET...)?
mrlament wrote:Well, it really has been at least 10 years since I've done any of this stuff, so I don't have anything in my 'toolbox' as of now. Having said that, to the best of my recollection, In the past on linux/unix I probably would've used a combination of grep, sed and some shell scripting to control it all (and of course a cron job to run it). So it sounds like cygwin w/ grep and sed for windows will pretty much allow me the same functionality. Yes?
Flying Fox wrote:You'll need to learn a bit on the Windows Task Scheduler for the cron part, but pretty much.
just brew it! wrote:Out of curiosity, is there any specific python tutorial or online learning reference that you recommend? It's looking like python is probably going to be the way to go for something I've been ruminating on.To clarify the Python recommendation in my previous post: I'd only suggest that if you already know Python, or want to learn it. Otherwise go the Cygwin route (since you've worked with *NIX shell tools before).
I do think that Python is a very useful skill to have these days... but I don't know if you're in the mood to learn a new scripting language right now (only you can answer that).
mattsteg wrote:just brew it! wrote:Out of curiosity, is there any specific python tutorial or online learning reference that you recommend? It's looking like python is probably going to be the way to go for something I've been ruminating on.To clarify the Python recommendation in my previous post: I'd only suggest that if you already know Python, or want to learn it. Otherwise go the Cygwin route (since you've worked with *NIX shell tools before).
I do think that Python is a very useful skill to have these days... but I don't know if you're in the mood to learn a new scripting language right now (only you can answer that).
cheesyking wrote:mattsteg wrote:Out of curiosity, is there any specific python tutorial or online learning reference that you recommend? It's looking like python is probably going to be the way to go for something I've been ruminating on.
Coming from a programming background the python docs should be a good start
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/
just brew it! wrote:If you can give a little more detail regarding the project you're thinking of using Python for, I may be able to direct you towards more specific information.