In the last couple of days I have been wondering (again) what do people write in UNIX shell scripts and how could those be implemented in Perl? In which cases is shell preferable to Perl?

As I have not written many shell scripts in my life I tried to look for some examples and bumped into the Wicked Cool Shell Scripts. I thought it would be cool (and wicked) to implement them in Perl.

So I started to do it but while each one is relatively simple doing all 101 is quite a lot of work. Dear Monks, please help me translating them. Pick one of the scripts, implement it in Perl and post it here.

Let me start with the first script....

Update: strangely I did not find earlier a book with the title: Wicked Cool Perl Scripts that was pointed out by planetscape so I retitled the node. Unfortunatelly I cannot seem to find the scripts from this book but that would not be related to my question anyway.

In reply to Wicked Cool Shell Scripts implemented in Perl by szabgab

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