Are there OS functions that rely on perl? What sorts of things?
Yes. Not many, though. You can see what's there if you type
$ locate *.pl
in a terminal window.
That will only show the files ending in .pl. Scripts use the #! line
to determine the interpreter to run them with, not the filename
extension.
I was thinking, let's write a script to check the first lines. But I'm
lazy.
file /*bin/* | grep perl
file /usr/*bin/* | grep perl
gets everything in the usual places for system executables. Of course
it misses utility scripts in odd places, including all those found by
the "locate *.pl" command. Since I'm a little weak with one-liners and
with File::Find, I should try to work up a one-liner that would do a
recursive descent, and log out and back in as a user that can sudo so I
can descend all the places my working user can't.
But I'm lazy. ;-/
