Re: Shell scripting VS perl

kenneho staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Are there any guidelines to which automation problems should be solved
using shell scripts, and which problems should [be] [solved] with
perl?

If it has to be run before /usr is mounted, use shell. If it mostly
involves invoking external programs, or you can do it in less than 40
lines, use shell. If it'd be a complete pain to do it in shell, use
Perl. If none of these things apply, then use whatever you want, just
take care to put in comments and document the script so that you don't
say, "What was I thinking?" 6 months later.

There are not huge numbers of guidelines for this sort of thing because
the number of problems out there is so large, and everyone's approach to
those problems is different. The previous paragraph worked for me.
YMMV.

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