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



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