Re: [wlug] help with shell scripting

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 15:32 +1300, David Nicholls wrote:

Unfortunately due to the nature of the scientific program he is interfacing with, shell script is it as far as I am aware. I'll let you know how he goes.

Perhaps I'm horribly wrong, but wouldn't an ability to interface with a shell script automatically imply an ability to interface with perl? Awk and sed and such are all just applications themselves, called from the script. Why would perl be different?