Dan Anderson wrote: > > > And I still think you should be writing a bash script! > > I forgot to mention that bash scripts are not necessarily portable. > There are lots of *BSDers out there who have Perl on their system but > don't install bash. The OpenBSD community comes to mind. > > So if portability were an issue Perl might be a better choice. Of > course, one could argue that not all servers have Perl installed either, > so.... ::shrugs::
But a Perl program which is just a sequence of backtick strings? Sigh. /R -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]