Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:44:08 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@plasm.demon.co.uk> To: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@redirect.to> Cc: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@plasm.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl module for periodic scripts Message-ID: <20010612074408.A27697@plasm.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <u21mpl9x.fsf@gits.dyndns.org>; from clefevre-lists@noos.fr on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:57:46AM %2B0200 References: <20010611102830.A26191@plasm.demon.co.uk> <u21mpl9x.fsf@gits.dyndns.org>
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:57:46AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@plasm.demon.co.uk> > Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Perl module for periodic scripts > Reply-To: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@redirect.to> > Mail-Copies-To: never > From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre-lists@noos.fr> > Date: 12 Jun 2001 02:57:46 +0200 > User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) > > 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. No. I'm not out to re-write the world in Perl. If you like sh/sed/awk, then great, write code in sh/sed/awk. Me, I prefer perl, but it's not a religious thing. > 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. I don't doubt that it's possible, but for me, it's a lot easier to do it in 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 Impressively complicated stuff. Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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