[Gambas-user] some bash commands I wish move in gambas

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 05/10/2023 à 12:57, BB a écrit :
> 
> On 5/10/23 7:09 pm, roberto.premoli at tiscali.it wrote:
>> hello,
>> in my soft i used the followed bash command
>>
>> cp
>> tar -cvzf
>> tar zxvf
>> rm -rf
>> ls -la
>> mv -f
>> md5sum
>> scp
>> ssh
>> find
>> cat
>>
>> I run them using Exec, they works fine.
>> Now I almost complete the program and I think it will be more elegant, more "right" to use only gambas commands (if there are)
>> and not external programs.
> 
> Why do you think Exec is less "elegant"? Linux and Unix is based on the 
> precept "do one thing and do it well". There are equivalents in Gambas 
> for a lot of these but if we just take "cp" as an example, they are yes 
> "elegant" solutions for simple "cp" operations but in the long run do 
> not provide the full power of the bash command. Don't misunderstand me, 
> there is nothing at all wrong with the Gambas native commands, but I 
> don't see why you would consider an internal to be more "elegant".
> 
> In fact, IMO Exec is a very elegant way of getting fundamental things 
> provided by the bash shell to work exactly as needed in the situation.
> 
> ymmv
> 
> b
> 

I agree.

-- 
Benoît Minisini.