That is, IMO, a limitation of this site. The coding tip from esk555 is indeed not a "Cool Use For Perl", but OTOH there is no section here for mere "Practical Tips For Perl Programmers". So he had to put it here, by lack of a better place. (where else... Code Catacombs? Snippets?)

The real irony, to me, is that if he had posted the exact same node as a reply to a SoPW question "How can I combine scripts on the same command line?", it probably would have gotten a lot of upvotes. There regularly are nodes of this type, in Daily Best Nodes.

p.s. His tip is indeed worthwhile for Windows programmers, who aren't used to this kind of thing. The only tools that I know of on Windows that commonly used in this way, are ports of Unix utilities, such as UnxUtils.

In reply to Re^5: Using pipes to combine scripts by bart
in thread Using pipes to combine scripts by esk555

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