Jeff Hyche wrote: > On 06/29/2006 06:29:43 PM, Chris Kuethe wrote: > >On 6/29/06, Jeff Hyche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I'm not sure of what I'll rewrite the script in. ... I've though > >>about redoing it in > >>perl or C ... > > > >I like perl for this sort of stuff. All sorts of great string > >processing for parsing the output of various tools, and built in math > >so you don't have to feed here-documents to bc. ;) > > Perl would be the perfect language for this. Problem is I haven't done > perl in 15 or so years. Since then all the perl has pretty much leaked > out my ears. At least for this next version I'm going to keep it in > bash.
Yes, please stick with shell. Perl has too much syntactical sugar to be used for anything longer than one line of less than 32 characters. As long as you code in shell at least SOMEBODY else will be able to understand your script.
