[DFW.pm] Is Perl Like Shell Script?

[Mike South]

It might be easier for you to get an idea of this if you give us an example
of something complex you did, or were thinking of doing, in a shell script,
and we can show you how perl would make it easier (if that happens to be
the case for your case).

mike


On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:50 PM, A.J. Maurin <coyo at darkdna.net> wrote:

> I know this is kindof a stupid question, but Perl was introduced to me as
> being a good alternative to using complex BASH Shell scripts with embedded
> Awk and Sed scripts.
>
> Is Perl like a shell script?
>
> from http://perldoc.perl.org/**perlintro.html#What-is-Perl<http://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro.html#What-is-Perl>?
> it seems that perl is somewhat like shell or php in some ways.
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