in reply to Re: perl to run awk and sed
in thread perl to run awk and sed

, thanks :-) , will have a play later, as I d rather use perl where I can

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Re^3: perl to run awk and sed
by Laurent_R (Canon) on Nov 30, 2015 at 18:26 UTC
    I d rather use perl where I can
    ++. I would also advise you to do it in pure Perl, which can do anything that awk and sed can do, and much more, and in most cases more efficiently and with much richer functionalities.

      ++ ...it's also much more likely your code will be cross-platform portable (unix, windows etc), if you're not shelling out to commands that are platform specific.