"Can it be done in Perl"? Do we need to discuss Turing-completeness? I think what you mean to ask is "How easily can this be done in Perl?" to which the answer is, "Very easily." 

#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $wkdir = '/var/sadm/install';
chdir $wkdir or die "Couldn't cd to $wkdir: $!\n";
open I, 'contents' or die "Couldn't open 'contents': $!\n";
my @line;
while (<I>)
{
    next if m{/usr d|/usr/lib d|/usr/openwin d};
    if (/ d /)
    {
        @line = split;
        system("chown -R $line[4]:$line[5] $line[0]");
    }
}
close I;  # be polite

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(Note, I haven't tested this.)

As always, TIMTOWTDI. (This may even touch off a round of golf. ;-) Notice I didn't write the chown commands to a script, I just executed them directly. There are other optimizations possible, but I just wanted to make the correspondence to your script very clear.

HTH

Update
Changed cd to chdir. Thanks, blakem!

In reply to Re: How to do this in Perl ?? by VSarkiss
in thread How to do this in Perl ?? by wube

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