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

by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot)
on Apr 11, 2008 at 20:50 UTC ( [id://679853]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to 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.

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