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Date:      12 Jun 2001 02:57:46 +0200
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre-lists@noos.fr>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@plasm.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Perl module for periodic scripts
Message-ID:  <u21mpl9x.fsf@gits.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010611102830.A26191@plasm.demon.co.uk>
References:  <20010611102830.A26191@plasm.demon.co.uk>

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Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@plasm.demon.co.uk> writes:

[snip]
> by which time the script might just as well be pure perl anyhow...

and the perl polution continue...

while some people claims perl should goes off whenever possible,
you're claiming it should goes on.

FYI, the date stuff can be written in pure shell. don't know yet
about the uniq -i but should be possible w/o perl.

see the following url on a portable (awk and ksh) replacement for
date -v-1d :

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=date2julian&as_ugroup=fr.comp.os.unix&as_uauthors=cyrille%20lefevre

Cyrille.
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