[LOCATE ISSUE SOLVED:] Re: dumb question

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 16:59 -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> Somehow I just never hit the need for using the shell above and beyond
> a 
> quick whack to get me through something that couldn't be done with a 
> programming language. Its one of those things that I would regret not 
> having picked up ... except the amount of need I have for it is far
> less 
> than the need for the things I did pick up.

You might be surprised. For some of us, the first question is "how can I
do this with the Shell?" Only if the answer is "you can't", or "it would
be too slow", do we resort to programming. The whole Unix toolkit
philosophy is based on this, or at least used to be. That's why it was
so successful in the beginning.

poc