Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> by which time the script might just as well be pure perl anyhow...
and the perl polution continue...
while some people claims perl should goes off whenever possible,
you're claiming it should goes on.
FYI, the date stuff can be written in pure shell. don't know yet
about the uniq -i but should be possible w/o perl.
see the following url on a portable (awk and ksh) replacement for
date -v-1d :
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=date2julian&as_ugroup=fr.comp.os.unix&as_uauthors=cyrille%20lefevre
Cyrille.
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