Is it amazing things you can do with a simple Bourne Again Shell  (bash).

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This is the sad true: parsing is boring. And writing parser is even worst.

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iMacros - Web Automation, Web Testing and Web Scraping

Record & replay all web surfing activities

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E’ notizia fresca di stampa il rilascio di Tcl 8.6, che introduce parecchie novità a dispetto del fatto che sia una “minor” release.

 

In particolatre Tcl 8.6 introduce un motore “stackless”, integra nel linguaggio le estensioni OOP, ed aggiunge le coroutine.

Parliamo quindi diffusamente di Tcl, un linuaggio che ho sempre trascurato perché mi sembrava macchinoso e un po’ brutto/fatto  male…ma mi sono dovuto ricredere.

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Bash scripting has evolved a lot in the last ten years.

I get used to relay on bash for all normal “data domination” tasks (like file system refactorings, database extraction and reporting and so on) and switching to python/ruby/perl when the complexity gets bigger. I didn’t imagine bash is even more powerful :) This article by Robert Muth so you new nice tricks: I  add here some other like mapfile and stress the most important one.

^{Update 2016} Last but not least,if you do now know about bash history, this link will teach you a huge set of tricks ^{Updated 2019} Bash Bible will further extend the topic.

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