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Re: [Wlug] Shell Script Question

by Theo Van Dinter

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:05:27AM -0400, Gary J. Hanley wrote: > Can anyone tell me the pros & cons of coding your shell scripts to > stay in-process instead of spawning a child process when needed? The ones that immediately come to mind: Pro: You don't need to use extra resources to get the job done Con: It's not directly portable to other platforms /bin/sh on Linux is really bash. /bin/sh everywhere else that I know of is just sh and doesn't have the capabilities. If you want to be portable, don't rely on built-ins. If you don't care, use built-ins. For example: T=/path/to/file echo $T ${T##*/} Linux: $ sh t /path/to/file file Solaris: $ sh t t: bad substitution -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "...and scantily clad females, of course. Who cares if it's below zero outside" (By Linus Torvalds)

July 23, 2002

Shell Script Question

by Gary J. Hanley

Greetings! A shell script question: Can anyone tell me the pros & cons of coding your shell scripts to stay in-process instead of spawning a child process when needed? For example, ${VARIABLE##*/} instead of `basename $VARIABLE` I'm trying to use the former as much as possible now but I wasn't exactly sure if that is better, not so safe or just doesn't matter. Thanks! -- Gary

July 23, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for a home - 2 sparc classics

by Chuck Haines

You guesses it. Acutally I haven't even booted the thing up yep, but when I get back to school and start getting the lab in order I will. Anything is appreciated. Thanks, Nate Godin wrote: >On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Chuck Haines wrote: > > >>WPILA could use a donation if you wish. We really could use one of the sun >>keyboards at the least. >> >> > >Playing with my old SparcStation? I used to run it headless, no >keyboard... need the root password or IP address? > >Nate > > -- ------------------------------------------------- | Chuck Haines | AIM: CyberGrex | | WPILA Lab Manager | ICQ: 3707881 | | GDC Webmaster | Yahoo: CyberGrex_27 | ------------------------------------------------- "Geek by nature, Linux by choice."

July 22, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for a home - 2 sparc classics

by stoffel＠lucent.com

Chuck> WPILA could use a donation if you wish. We really could use Chuck> one of the sun keyboards at the least. Sure, I can give you a pair of keyboards without a problem. The Classics are spoken for though.

July 22, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for a home - 2 sparc classics

by Nate Godin

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Chuck Haines wrote: > WPILA could use a donation if you wish. We really could use one of the sun > keyboards at the least. Playing with my old SparcStation? I used to run it headless, no keyboard... need the root password or IP address? Nate -- Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley

July 22, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for a home - 2 sparc classics

by Chuck Haines

WPILA could use a donation if you wish. We really could use one of the sun keyboards at the least. At 02:09 PM 7/21/2002 -0400, desdinova(a)soupforare.net wrote: >On 21 Jul 2002 at 12:42, stoffel(a)lucent.com wrote: > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > I'm cleaning the garage and I want to get rid of stuff. I've got a > > pair of sparc classics, probably installed with Linux, plus about 8 or > > so brand new sun keyboards, somce mice and maybe other stuff. > > > > First one to email gets it all. I can try to bring it to the next > > meeting, or we can arrange a pickup off list. > >I could use them, if they're not already gone > >Thanks, >James >KB1FJQ > > > > John > > stoffel(a)lucent.com > > john(a)stoffel.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Chuck Haines | AIm: CyberGrex | | WPILA Lab Manger | Yahoo: CyberGrex_27 | | GDC Webmaster | ICQ: 3707881 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Geek by nature, Linux by choice."

July 22, 2002

Debian GNU/Linux -- News -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 released

by jeff

<http://www.debian.org/News/2002/20020719> *sob* i'm so happy =] -jeff

July 22, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Debian GNU/Linux -- News -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 released

by Josh Huber

jeff <jmr71769(a)earthlink.net> writes: > <http://www.debian.org/News/2002/20020719> > > *sob* > > i'm so happy =] Yes, this is good news! -- Josh Huber

July 22, 2002

pine/mozilla/htmlview

by Bill Mills-Curran

I recently switched to mozilla 1.0, and I'm having problems getting pine to understand that I want to use mozilla as my URL viewer. In the pine setup, I set the URL viewer to a perl script that I wrote that then runs mozilla. (The script works fine when I run it separately.) When I view a URL in pine, I end up with the KDE browser. The output of "ps" shows that pine is running /usr/bin/htmlview instead of my perl script. Any idea why pine is ignoring my setup? TIA, Bill

July 22, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for a home - 2 sparc classics

by desdinova＠soupforare.net

On 21 Jul 2002 at 12:42, stoffel(a)lucent.com wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I'm cleaning the garage and I want to get rid of stuff. I've got a > pair of sparc classics, probably installed with Linux, plus about 8 or > so brand new sun keyboards, somce mice and maybe other stuff. > > First one to email gets it all. I can try to bring it to the next > meeting, or we can arrange a pickup off list. I could use them, if they're not already gone Thanks, James KB1FJQ > John > stoffel(a)lucent.com > john(a)stoffel.org > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

July 21, 2002