Cross OS/OS Version Programming. Have past and current projects where the script will run on a variety of Linux to various flavors of *NIX.
Additionally, the script should run all versions of Linux RHEL 3+ and Solaris 2.5.1+ for example. Definitely, there is no perl on some of them, and you even mention Oracle bundling it because of this. I chose ksh/awk/sed to bind and rule them all. Besides, it does not hurt to learn awk/sed. The generic ideas like regexp is applicable to other programming languages including perl anyways. And yes, ancient UNIX running for more than a decade still exists. One financial company still runs Solaris 2.5.1 on a single E4.5K. No one dares touch it when it generates 30% of the company income. -- regards, Andre | http://www.varon.ca On 3/6/08, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess if you took a "stock" AIX installation (or maybe HP-UX?) it > would have no Perl. > > It boggles the mind that such a beast (a Perl-less Unix?!?!?!) would > still exist though. > > Vendors (like Oracle) get around this problem by bundling Perl with > their products, just in case there's no system Perl. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
