June 26th 2007

Lamby's Second Postulate

Lamby's second postulate is, of course, don't use Perl unless absolutely necessary. For example, this 41-line script can easily be written as:

#!/bin/sh
while [ -n "$1" ]; do
   curl -F upload=@"$1" http://192.168.0.251/
   shift
done

Recursive file adding then achieved using the GNU findutils. Relax, it's the UNIX way.




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