Re^3: Perl losing, unfairly

Actually, I missed that in the File::Find example. In fact either the Perl test (and some others) is invalid or the shell test (and some others) is.
The shell script compiles recursively, and the Perl has a check to avoid compiling recursively. One of them violates the goal of the script

As far as the exit stuff goes, I realized that it could be written better as:

exit !-e "/etc/mtab"
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I emailed the author with the exit changes (and reiterated your File::Find findings). Hopefully he will resolve them.

-pete
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Re^4: Perl losing, unfairly
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Jun 16, 2004 at 13:01 UTC

As far as the exit stuff goes, I realized that it could be written better as:

Except that will exit regardless, which I dont think is the objective. I prefer

-e "/etc/mtab" or die;
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Re^5: Perl losing, unfairly

by PodMaster (Abbot) on Jun 16, 2004 at 13:09 UTC

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
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Re^5: Perl losing, unfairly

by dreadpiratepeter (Priest) on Jun 16, 2004 at 13:14 UTC

-pete
"Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere."

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