Thanks,
tim
Timothy B Booher, Lt USAF, AFRL/MNAC
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Subject: Re: is there ever a situation when you need a shell script
instead of a perl script?
If you don't need the features of Perl, and all you're doing is executing
other processes and whatnot, there's no need for Perl where shell will do.
--
Jeff japhy Pinyan
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Subject: is there ever a situation when you need a shell script instead
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Thanks,
tim
Timothy B Booher, Lt USAF, AFRL/MNAC
101 West Eglin Blvd, Suite 339
Trivially, when perl is not installed!
- Original Message -
From: Mike Gargiullo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 5:02 PM
Subject: RE: is there ever a situation when you need a shell script instead
of a perl script?
Need? I don't know... But I have
Roger C Haslock [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Trivially, when perl is not installed!
Shell scripts are useful where you need maximum portability. They can also be
very complex. Take a look at an autoconf shell script sometime. Not something
you would write by hand, but they are very portable
