Perl (or Unix vs. MS, actually)

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:52:35 EDT
"Steven W. Orr" said:

>On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>=>In a message dated: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:16:58 CDT
>=>Thomas Charron said:
>=>
>=>For example, in shell, the construct:
>=>
>=>	cd /tmp && rm foo
>
>Whotchoo talkin 'bout Willis?
>
>cd == chdir is a builtin command. But point taken.

Okay, bad example :)  How about:

	PID=`ps -ef | grep foo | awk '{print $2}'`
	kill -9 $PID

That's 4 sub-processes :)

>Actually, debugging bash isn't all that bad. 

I'm not saying it can't be done, but...

>set -x 

isn't the same as a debugger with break points, watches, etc.

>And there is a full blown 
>debugger available for ksh with breakpoints and everything. :-)

Ooh, now *that's* cool!  Thanks!
-- 

Seeya,
Paul
--
	It may look like I'm just sitting here doing nothing,
   but I'm really actively waiting for all my problems to go away.

	 If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!