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PHP as a scripting language
I have reasonable knowledge of PHP, Perl, and Bash. I use Perl for most text processing on my system (find, replace, filter output, etc). I use PHP for web development, allowing a user to view and ...
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I need to know the reasons why learning Linux Shell Scripting (BASH) benefits me as a PHP developer
I have been developing web sites/applications using the LAMP stack for almost 5 years.
Currently I am interested to dig more into Linux OS, specifically BASH but from a web developer perspective, not ...
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Trailing forward slash in directory names - good programming practice?
I want to ask the user of my bash script to pass a directory path as argument. Which one of the following is a good programming practice - to require that the user enter a trailing / (forward slash) ...
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What is your favorite shell (zsh, tcsh, bash, other?) and why?
What features make your favorite shell your favorite?
My boss uses tcsh and I have been using bash. It seems that comparisons tend to rate zsh highly (note the last link is a Postscript file).
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Why such popularity with Python?
Other than being annoyed at whitespace as syntax, I'm not a hater, I just don't get the fascination with Python.
I appreciate the poetry of Perl, and have programmed beautiful web services in bash ...
