Hey sridevi,
Friday, June 22, 2001, 3:07:40 AM, you wrote:
sa> Hi all, Could anyone briefly explain the difference between
sa> the shell script and the scripting language like perl? Thanx in
sa> advance, visu
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One way to look at it is:
A shell script calls the OS and other programs to do it's work (in
UNIX ls/cp/mv/rm/grep/sed/awk/perl, etc. or in M$ Win dir/copy/move/del,
etc.).
Perl has most of these functions built in. Or you can easily add the
ones you need by pulling them from CPAN.
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