On 20 Mar 2019, mark lewis said the following...
 
 ml> the main guts are the "sort -n | uniq" part... i still
generally go back
 ml> through and look at the lines... especially since they're now sorted and
 ml> it is easier to find typos for things like exact same lines but one has
 ml> a typo period where the other has a proper comma...

That's what I'm working on now. One will have a period, the won't, and the
next will have an explanation point. I'm also finding a bunch that are cut
off at 57 characters. 

 ml> they're not so bad... like learning .bat coding in DOS... they are a lot
 ml> more capable, though... kinda like using 4DOS with its enhanced scripting
 ml> capabilities... the other thing, though, is using the available tools...
 ml> i mainly write scripts so i don't have to remember all the steps and
 ml> specific command lines to do certain things...

I was pretty good at batch files in DOS. Right now, I'm using the scripting
to basically run programs. For example, my script for running MultiMail:

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/mmail/mmail-0.51
./mm

There are a few that I've gotten a bit more complex at, but not much. They
have if statements, to run certain programs depending on what files are in
the inbound to the BBS.

There is so much more that I can be using scripting for...


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