csh if..then delhema.

Gary Kline kline at tao.thought.org
Sun Sep 9 13:20:34 PDT 2007


On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 08:44:07PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> Gary Kline wrote:
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> > 	Do any of you gents know if there is a converter that turns
> > 	Bo[u]rne (:-)) shell into perl?  Years ago there was
> > 	commericalware (i Think) that took /bin/sh to C.  Maybe Ii'm
> > 	mis-remembering.  I've googled aroud and find zip, so maybe I
> > 	was in some kind of coma-zone.  
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> I believe that just such a converter is well known in the perl
> community.  His name is Tom Christiansen IIRC.
> 

	The name is familiar, of course... .   Guess I'll re-google:)
	(FWIW, I fund a csh2sh.pl script that is years old.  Not sure 
	of the copyright, but it has to be online orin some archive.)   
	I've only written several score of perl scripts; < 150.
	/bin/shell into the low thousands.

	Good show, Matthew!

	gary


> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
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