Though I doubt any one wants to be known as a shellmonk, it would be very useful to have a few pages of "now that you know it Perl, how do you do it the hard way", just as reference :)

I don't know how many times I skip past a find or a grep and jump straight into Perl due to my general slackness and intolerance for the various idiosyncracies.

I also find that slackness causing me to use 'slocate' instead of 'find', but that's impatience and thus is a virtue :) Let's face it though. Perl is just easier.