Well, since you are being snarky I'll respond in kind: I doubt it, i reckon youll still be fighting with the shell syntax, and doublechecking that the switches and utilities you got so used to in bash are actually present in the shell you need to run it on. And even then you still wont be 100% confident that it will all work as expected.
Bollocks. find | xargs has worked on every Unix system I've used for the last 30 years. Out of the box. In any shell, as the only 'shell' thing here is the pipe, which is universal. It has worked long before Larry released perl1.0, and it will continue to work long after perl5 will be a distant memory.
Which to me is the reason that perl scripts beat shell scripts hands down pretty well every time. I can use the same perl script on every shell and OS I can find pretty much. Your shell script will only work on a small subset of them, and will require massive changes for some of them.
The shell solution will work on at least anything that's POSIX compliant. Will your Perl program work in perl6? How would you know - it may work on todays version of perl6, but maybe not on next weeks. As for Perl being present on the OS by default, for many OSses, it's only quite recent that their OS came with some version of perl5 installed.
Shell scripts are only worth thinking about if you are a monoculture programmer. Since I'm not I view them mostly with contempt. Who needs shell scripts when you have perl scripts instead?
So, you do everything with Perl scripts, so you're not a monoculture programmer? Interesting. What's your definition of monoculture then?

But you're right. Once you have a truck, you have no need for a bicycle. It's much easier to start up the truck and find a parking spot, just to get a newspaper from the shop around the corner. It's cheaper as well. Bicyclists are monoculture traffic participants - none of them know how to drive a car.

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In reply to Re^3: Myth busted: Shell isn't always faster than Perl by Perl Mouse
in thread Myth busted: Shell isn't always faster than Perl by zentara

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