Hello enlightened brothers and sisters. I am a newbie to UNIX and to Perl. I have written a script to fix a problem we had a couple of days ago and I was wondering if the same could be done in Perl. The Bourne script follows: 
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script fixes the ownership of all files that is in /var/sadm/in
+stall
#  It bypasses 3 directories /usr
#                            /usr/lib
#                            /usr/openwin
#
WKDIR=/var/sadm/install  
cd  $WKDIR
#
egrep -v "/usr d |/usr/lib d |/usr/openwin d " contents | grep ' d ' |
+ awk '{ print "chown -R " $5":"$6,$1 }' > /tmp/fixchown.sh

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Any assistance towards reaching Nirvana will be greatly appreciated.
wube

Edit kudra, 2001-11-14 Added code tags

In reply to How to do this in Perl ?? by wube

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