Programming question

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2007-03-20 01:53pm

Are there any simple utilities out there that can do simple, yet tedious tasks, like I want to extract byte xxx in 234 files, and write it to a text file?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2007-03-20 02:49pm

You might be able to write something in Perl to do that. Look up one of the scripting languages (Ruby, Python, Perl, etc.) and start playing around.

Chris OFarrell · Post by **Chris OFarrell** » 2007-03-21 08:51am

Also depends on what OS you're running and what tools are there.

I mean if you're running a nix' with all those lovely things like grep, ls, more, cat, find bla bla bla, its a peice of cake to hack out some Perl or even something in Bash or Sh.

If however this is a windows question...

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2007-03-21 11:27am

Chris OFarrell wrote:If however this is a windows question...

Well, there's always Cygwin, SFU, WSH, Windows PowerShell ...

Chris OFarrell · Post by **Chris OFarrell** » 2007-03-21 06:19pm

phongn wrote:
Chris OFarrell wrote:If however this is a windows question...
Well, there's always Cygwin, SFU, WSH, Windows PowerShell ...

And how many people with windows boxes run these things as a matter of course?