From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 11 17:57:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.noos.fr (camus.noos.net [212.198.2.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA5A337B401 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clefevre@redirect.to) Received: (qmail 487415 invoked by uid 0); 12 Jun 2001 00:57:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.228.81]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.70 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 12 Jun 2001 00:57:48 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5C0vlq47298; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 02:57:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from clefevre@redirect.to) To: Matthew Seaman Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl module for periodic scripts References: <20010611102830.A26191@plasm.demon.co.uk> X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[<97Zd*>^#%Y5Cxv;%Y[PT-LW3;A:fRrJ8+^k"e7@+30g0YD0*^^3jgyShN7o?a]C la*Zv'5NA,=963bM%J^o]C Reply-To: Cyrille Lefevre In-Reply-To: <20010611102830.A26191@plasm.demon.co.uk> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Cyrille Lefevre Date: 12 Jun 2001 02:57:46 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Seaman 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. -- home: mailto:clefevre@redirect.to UNIX is user-friendly; it's just particular work: mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@edf.fr about who it chooses to be friends with. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message