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On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 21:30, Alex Charrett wrote:
On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 14:05, paul wrote:echo sleep for 10 seconds echo sleep 10 echo 10 second elapsed. not sure if you can have a beep with shell scripts, but I guess the shell sleep command uses the unix clock where as say perl equivilent uses the interpreter, or somethingI've just re-read this and got a bit confused by what you're trying to say... Shell and Perl scripts are both interpreted programs, they just use a different interpreter (as defined by the hashbang at the top of the script), similarly with things like tcl and expect, and god forbid - python :) Perl will access the unix clock using the same kernel system calls as say, bash does. I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to differentiate.
For the pedants among us you may want to s/bash/the shell and its supporting binaries/ in that last paragraph :) Alex. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.