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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:53:18 +0300
From:      Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
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:  <20010612105318.B923@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
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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 Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:57:46, clefevre-lists (Cyrille Lefevre) wrote about "Re: Perl module for periodic scripts": 

> 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.

tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | uniq
(does this uniquing requires to preserve case of at least one variant?
I suppose no)

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

Then the program will contain perl, ksh and awk code? There are too many
languages used, aren't there? Also realize please that base system does not
contain ksh. Monolithic perl code, without awk & ksh, will be better because
perl is in base system already...


/netch

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