Re^3: perl to run awk and sed

[Laurent_R]

I d rather use perl where I can

++. I would also advise you to do it in pure Perl, which can do anything that awk and sed can do, and much more, and in most cases more efficiently and with much richer functionalities.

[stevieb]

++ ...it's also much more likely your code will be cross-platform portable (unix, windows etc), if you're not shelling out to commands that are platform specific.