On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:57:46AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> To: Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Perl module for periodic scripts
> Reply-To: Cyrille Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> From: Cyrille Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 12 Jun 2001 02:57:46 +0200
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> > Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [snip]
> > by which time the script might just as well be pure perl anyhow...
>
> and the perl polution continue...
>
> while some people claims perl should goes off whenever possible,
> you're claiming it should goes on.
No. I'm not out to re-write the world in Perl. If you like
sh/sed/awk, then great, write code in sh/sed/awk. Me, I prefer perl,
but it's not a religious thing.
> FYI, the date stuff can be written in pure shell. don't know yet
> about the uniq -i but should be possible w/o perl.
I don't doubt that it's possible, but for me, it's a lot easier to do
it in Perl.
> see the following url on a portable (awk and ksh) replacement for
> date -v-1d :
>
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=date2julian&as_ugroup=fr.comp.os.unix&as_uauthors=cyrille%20lefevre
Impressively complicated stuff.
Matthew
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