; Of course you can, if it is your box you put on what you think makes it
; useful. Hundres of thousands of boxes have Perl on them. Which OSes
; come with Perl as standard? Solaris does *now* (v8), others are following
; as well. But they didn't used to.
I avoid perl as well if I want something to work everywhere with out
installing modules, etc.
; Usually, not always. Is it worth my time to write a progam in perl to
; do a task (when perl isn't supplied on most OSes either) or to simply
; recompile GNU find. The latter in my case.
well, perhaps you're comfortable with such dependancies -- I'm not.
; > I disagree. I've never been in a situation with respect to (find-ish
; > tasks) that I couldn't overcome by using the standard 7th Edition
; > toolkit.
;
; Permission checking is what drove me to use GNU find over Sun's.
What is it about the -perm flag on Solaris' find that is inadequate?
; Their are archives of binaries if you don't have available a compiler.
; For BSD; use Open/Free/NetBSD. For Solaris check http://www.sunfreeware.com/
; I'm sure a similiar service exists for AIX users as well.
Yes, availability wasn't my point. Ubiquity (with out considerable
effort) was. If I write my shell in a portable manner ONCE then that
scales far better than yours which demands GNU tools to be installed for
every additional box you wish to roll it out to. I think my way will be
less effort and time in the long run.
r.
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