Re: At what point do you rewrite that old shell script in Perl?

Given that you have Perl at your disposal ... why use shell scripts? At all?

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Re^2: At what point do you rewrite that old shell script in Perl? by rudder (Scribe) on Apr 12, 2008 at 05:21 UTC
When you inherit the scripts, and then users ask for minor changes and it's easier to make those minor changes than dive in and rewrite the whole thing.	[reply]


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