in reply to Get disk usage without modules

There are very good reasons why you should use an existing, battle-tested module instead of trying to "roll your own." The CPAN library contains several tested ways to do this, and if you simply leverage one of them (without bothering to peek under the hood), both you and everyone who will follow in your footsteps will know that it works.

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Re^2: Get disk usage without modules
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 06, 2018 at 16:40 UTC
    There are very good reasons why you should use an existing, battle-tested module instead of trying to "roll your own." The CPAN library contains several tested ways to do this, and if you simply leverage one of them (without bothering to peek under the hood), both you and everyone who will follow in your footsteps will know that it works.

    And yet you list none of those reasons; and of course, everything on cpan always works, all the time. Yes Sundail; I recognise you even incognito.


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