Are there any bash like instructions for lazarus pascal?

[MarkMLl]

This might possibly be a good time to mention the classic Kernighan & Plauger "Software Tools in Pascal" book http://seriouscomputerist.atariverse.com/media/pdf/book/Software%20Tools%20in%20Pascal.pdf

However since it dates back to when regexes were only just beginning to be accepted in any language, and completely predates Pascal's adoption of objects including TStringLists etc., it's really only suitable for the sort of masochist who thinks that Bash's scripting facilities are state of the art.

MarkMLl

[ASBzone]

I was counting on some condescending, arrogant, accusatory answers like yours.

You kind of set the tone by your initial post.  When your first post contains "I am amazed that there are not..." and "With pascal, I have to mickey mouse around..." you're at the very least inviting similarly passioned responses.

Imagine, instead, if you had said something like: "Are there any bash or bash-like instructions for high-level languages...?"

Your post, and the attitude that appears to be associated with it (as confirmed by your response) do not really help your cause.  They literally invite people to call you out on mistaken assumptions (i.e. those are not "bash instructions") and they cause many to wonder if you understand the different between a shell scripting environment and a programming langugage.

Plus, you didn't help yourself by failing to include any information about what specific outcome you were looking to reach/obtain, or what OS and development versions you were using to do so.

Just things for you to consider...

[guest48704]

So, you fall right into my protest: 'I was counting on some condescending, arrogant, accusatory answers like yours.'.

Here is a good example of the ease of something I just used.

Needing to extract the lines in a file containing the words 'pattern1' and 'pattern2', all that was necessary was this fgrep instruction:

Placed  'pattern1' and 'pattern2' in <f1>.  Data file is in <f2>.

fgrep -w -f <f1> <f2>

[lucamar]

Here is a good example of the ease of something I just used.

Needing to extract the lines in a file containing the words 'pattern1' and 'pattern2', all that was necessary was this fgrep instruction:

Placed  'pattern1' and 'pattern2' in <f1>.  Data file is in <f2>.

fgrep -w -f <f1> <f2>

What you don't seem to realize (and excuse me if I'm wrong) is that that is *not* a "bash instruction" but an order to bash to execute a program called fgrep, which by itself is a rather complex (and long) piece of code.

If you want you can "mimic" what bash does (execute fgrep) with a TProcess or write a set of classes/functions mimicking what fgrep itself does, though this last can quickly become a quite complex undertaking.