> "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 across Unix variants. Perl is fortunately becoming part of the standard toolset on a lot of Unix systems, so writing any sort of relatively complex script in Perl rather than shell makes a lot of sense. -- Smoot Carl-Mitchell Consultant -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
