UNIX Perl commands

cored has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks, have somebody see the Perl Toys project around im looking for it, i just want to make some contributions. Perl Toy is a project that is trying to make a set of unix command in plain perl code, i think this will be good for embedded systems.

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Re: UNIX Perl commands by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Jun 25, 2003 at 21:19 UTC
Perhaps you mean the Perl Power Tools.	[reply]
Re: UNIX Perl commands by waswas-fng (Curate) on Jun 25, 2003 at 21:21 UTC
except, that a compiled version of the command takes up less space on embeded systems that the perl bin + modules + scripts would take up for the same commands =) embeded systems usually have at least 2 points of constraint memory and cpu -- both of which this idea goes against. -Waswas	[reply]
Re: UNIX Perl commands by bobn (Chaplain) on Jun 25, 2003 at 22:33 UTC
The orginal intent was not for embedded systems but for non-unix-like system, particularly those made by slimeballs in Redmond, WA. --Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com	[reply]