> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:28:16AM +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
>> So this made me think "Friday mailing list thread!". What FLOSS
>> application
>> or technology gives you the fuzzies, or makes your life significantly
>> better
>> in some way?
>
> The thing that probably makes me step back and say "how cool is
> this?" most often is bash. The flexibility and power of the basic
> shell tools frequently amazes me -- you can do some incredibly complex
> data processing using just pipelines, shell variable substitution, and
> a small set of maybe 6-8 tools like grep, sed, cut and so forth.
I'll add a very AOLish "me too" to this comment. I'm continually amazed
at how easy it is to perform fairly complex tasks using the shell and
grep.
The basic building blocks are all there, and I'm still learning how to use
them!
--
Graeme Hilton
