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[Frank Tobin]

Werner Koch, at 18:51 on Thu, 20 Jan 2000, wrote:

> > Please don't tell me you are using shell.  Use Perl or some other
> > system-level scripting language.  There are modules on CPAN for
> 
> What's wrong with a shell script and some AWKing - I like it 

The problem is that Perl has features in it designed for security (e.g.,
Taint mode).   You can be much more careful about processing information
when in Perl then you can with awk and friends.

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