Re: QSH scripting

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> This might be the wrong list, but I've had a question regarding scripting
> in QSH. Anybody have any experience? Links to documentation?  Thanks.

Do you have a specific example of something you would like to do in QSH?
Several people here have done scripting and may be able to help you out.

The hardcore scripting books are from O'Reilly (http://www.ora.com).  You
probably want one on the Bash shell.  One thing to keep in mind is that
QSH follows traditional UNIX style, not GNU style.  So a book on UNIX is
probably better than a book on linux since a linux book may use GNU style
options (every GNU command I can think of also follows traditional UNIX
style in addition to GNU style, but you may not know that --recursive is
the same as -R).

Just for the curious, traditional UNIX style for a recursive copy command
is this:

cp -R directory/to/copy destination

GNU style is this:

cp --recursive directory/to/copy destination

GNU style usually has longer, more descriptive options (in addition to
supporting the traditional ones).  I like GNU :)

James Rich

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