chmod a-x chmod Fix?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Jan 6 18:24:45 UTC 2006


On Friday 06 January 2006 11:03, Paul Howarth wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday 06 January 2006 10:40, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
>>>On 1/6/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>Errr, no.  Much of the reason perl exists is to have a scripting
>>>>language that makes all the system calls directly instead of
>>>>having to fork a separate program for every step like you
>>>>end up doing in shell.
>>>
>>>Agreed; just goes to show that TMTOWTDI applies to general systems
>>>administration.
>>
>> I'll bite, thats a new one on me.  Is it a corrollary of TANSTAAFL?
>
>No. As usual google is your friend. TMTOWTDI (There's More Than One
> Way To Do It) is the official motto of Perl.

So there is.  And occasionally, one or more of them is actually the 
right way.  :-)

Thanks.  This list must be pretty well read though, as so far no one's 
asked what a TANSTAAFL is.

>Paul.

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