As the faq indicates, you probably gain neither speed nor resources by a machine-translation.

Rather you should ask yourself what your scripts do and see if there are any benefits to recode them in Perl (or any other language for that matter). Of course if your intended goal is simply to learn Perl, then studying machine-translations of shellscripts into Perl is probably not the way to go. Such automated translations will have little or no "educational value". Either they are simple one-on-one translations which will not show the strength of the language, or they will be so highly optimised as to be virtually unreadable in all but the simplest of cases.

Far better to buy a good book on programming and start coding away.

Hanging out on PerlMonks wont be bad either!

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

In reply to Re: Perl converters by CountZero
in thread Perl converters by Wyman G

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