Actually, I think my criteria is a little simpler. If the shell script requires more than 2 lines, then use Perl instead. :)
Dean Theophilou Genisar -----Original Message----- From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 9:10 AM To: Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: is there ever a situation when you need a shell script instead of a perl script? If you don't need the features of Perl, and all you're doing is executing other processes and whatnot, there's no need for Perl where shell will do. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
