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Re: Re: untarring number of files

by agentv (Friar)
on Oct 23, 2003 at 22:06 UTC ( [id://301743]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: untarring number of files
in thread untarring number of files

...I don't get the "why use Perl for this" attitude. Did anyone consider that this might have been an extract from a much larger Perl program?

And there's no good reason *not* to use Perl for this. Frankly, using Perl is just about the same as using a shell script. An interpreter must be invoked. And although Perl may weigh more than the chosen shell for a script, it's not much heavier.

Not to mention, as someone else pointed out, that if you solve it with a Perl script, you can take that to a number of other platforms.

...All the world looks like -well- all the world, when your hammer is Perl.
---v

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