Good points! As far as the appropriateness of an answer in such terms in SoPW, that's because occasionally people would ask about how to "combine scripts" possibly thinking of something very Perl specific, wheareas shell interation would do.

As a side note Windows does come with its own file/text utils, descendent from old DOS ones, and probably inspired by UNIX ones (although note that IANAOH - I am not an osen historian). Of course it's apparent that the former ones are much less powerful and less prone to be combined each other than the latter ones. Anyway you can get a full list of them by just typing help at the prompt. Indeed, I do have UnxUtils and stuff from similar projects intalled. Just to make my life easier, you know...

In reply to Re^6: Using pipes to combine scripts by blazar
in thread Using pipes to combine scripts by esk555

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