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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

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