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Date:      Sun, 9 Sep 2007 13:19:26 -0700
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>
Subject:   Re: csh if..then delhema.
Message-ID:  <20070909201926.GC3569@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <46E44D07.7020704@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 08:44:07PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> Gary Kline wrote:
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> > 	Do any of you gents know if there is a converter that turns
> > 	Bo[u]rne (:-)) shell into perl?  Years ago there was
> > 	commericalware (i Think) that took /bin/sh to C.  Maybe Ii'm
> > 	mis-remembering.  I've googled aroud and find zip, so maybe I
> > 	was in some kind of coma-zone.  
> 
> I believe that just such a converter is well known in the perl
> community.  His name is Tom Christiansen IIRC.
> 

	The name is familiar, of course... .   Guess I'll re-google:)
	(FWIW, I fund a csh2sh.pl script that is years old.  Not sure 
	of the copyright, but it has to be online orin some archive.)   
	I've only written several score of perl scripts; < 150.
	/bin/shell into the low thousands.

	Good show, Matthew!

	gary


> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
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