(Oct-16-2016, 06:47 AM)Skaperen Wrote: anyone interested in a project of making python versions of various POSIX commands like cat, cp, diff, grep, head, ln, ls, mv, rm, tail, and wc? maybe subsets (not implement all options)?You can look a Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers
The reason why he did is a really good story.
It invoke a trail case and and a vault where he had to look at and understand 1-million lines of assembly/C/C++ code.
The only tool he had in vault was Windows XP and the search mud :sick:
So he had to reinvent Linux tool with Python to figure out the code,because he could not run the code.
David Beazley: Discovering Python