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Subject: Re: Batch Program
To: jvisagie@insight.co.za (Johann Visagie)
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 13:13:00 +0200 (MESZ)
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In his e-mail Johann Visagie wrote:
> Sean Batson wrote:
> >
> > I'm about to start a business of virtual site hosting and I wanted
> > to know if they where any software packages available for the
> > batch processing of new users, updating of the namedb and also the 
> > updating virtual host settings in the httpd.conf and the hosts file. 
> 
> Yes.  I think it's called Perl...  ;->

But no, the real hacker makes do with ex and sh.

Seriously, for editing a file *in place* ex beats perl 9 times out of 9

/Marino