Gary,

> One of the guys I work with likes perl. I haven't taken a close look at 
> it yet. Why, out of curiosity, would one choose perl over std. shell 
> scripts, besides the fact that they hurt the brain trying to read them?

Sounds like you opened a can of worms.

I use shell because there are no dependences. Shell works on all unicies
too.  Some operating systems *cough freebsd* don't even ship perl
anymore!

Mark

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