On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 02:59:54PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> 
> Actually, even Perl isn't a very usable alternative for shell
> scripting because of the amount of code you have to write just to fork
> off a command and capture the output.

That's not my experience.  Running an external command from Perl is
easy, and there are a number of ways to do it, to suit pretty much any
purpose.

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