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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Vendors Considered Evil (Re: Perl use over NFS)
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
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- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.231353.4388@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:13:53 GMT
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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- From the keyboard of jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz):
- :>I'm not sure, though, that I would characterize this as "*much*
- :>easer". It isn't that hard to edit a file or sed a collection of
- :>files.
- :
- :Especially since the Camel book (the standard Perl reference) contains
- :a nice little Perl program to fix all the #! lines of scripts for your
- :system.
-
- Imagine a /common/scripts/ directory that's mounted on a bunch
- of different machines of varying architectures. You'd want the
- #! line to match everywhere.
-
- --tom
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- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
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