a cron; in perl

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See the first reply to this node for the documentation, see the second reply for the source.

Offsite copies are also available here: source documentation. The latest version ought to live here.

What I seek with this post:

Peer review of the code
(I am aware of the general distate for capitalized vars; I've gotten better, look at 0.81 or ask wog)

Opinions on other features etc. (especially things listed in TODO.pod)

Need a name and good way of describing -S (currently CRONSOGGY); -S prevents the use of open(FH, "-|") which is believed to have an implict fork and is therefore not 100% cross-platform.

I'd like to know if you have a platform that supports this but not fork.

Confirmations of functionality on various platforms.
With minimal switches required to work; in order of increasing desperation: -s, -X, -s -S, -X -S.

It is known to work on Linux with 5.005_03 and Activestate 628 on Windows 98.

For bug reports please send the output and switches of however you were tying to run it as well as that from: -s -S -U -X -x 15 -L - (+ any other switches you may be using - whatever might conflict with what you're doing (-U if you're root?))

MacPerl people *cough* ChemBoy *cough*:
You can set your switches via {startup volume}/etc/default/cron.

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I forgot to answer that in the root node
• For fun
• I need/can use it for something I'm doing (especially -O)
• I hope to see it in Perl Power Tools someday.

I was unaware of Schedule::Cron/Schedule::Cron and Set::Crontab/Set::Crontab for the first half of the development. In addition I attempted not to use any non-standard modules. I may consult these in the future, Set::Crontab looks promising for crontab(1).

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perl -p -e "s/(?:\w);(<A HREF="/index.pl?node=st&lastnode_id=3333">st<
+/A>)/'\$1/mg"