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Re: Shell script or Perl?



Matthew Weier O'Phinney writes:
> One aspect of [Perl] I particularly like is that it is also very
> portable: I don't have to worry about which shell is available on which
> system...

On Unix and Linux conservatively-written POSIX sh scripts are more portable
than Perl.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI



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