Which is better depends entirely on the problem you are trying to solve. I
have found that Perl is great at processing large data files.
If your just doing simple things, though, a shell scripts is probably the
best.
Art DeBuigny
debuigny@dallas.net
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From: MENEZES, ALAIN <a.menezes@ASLK-CGER.BE>
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 9:54 AM
Subject: Perl vs shell scripts
>I'd like to know whether Perl programming is better than shell scripts
>(speed ? efficiency ? easyness ?)
>And where I could get the package. .. Freeware ?
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>Alain Menezes
>ASLK-CGER Services GIE Tel.: +32 2 228.55.74
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228.83.69
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