[Gambas-user] some bash commands I wish move in gambas
Benoît Minisini
benoit.minisini at gambas-basic.org
Thu Oct 5 14:03:11 CEST 2023
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.
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