Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 08:15:48 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: bde@godzilla.zeta.org.au, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, install-geeks@FreeBSD.org, joerg@sax.de, nate@trout.sri.mt.net, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Subject: Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools. Message-ID: <199504012215.IAA21533@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>perl has direct access to most system calls. Thus mv becomes a 2 line >perl script. You mean, like /bin/mv is a 20 line C program (I'll allow a generous factor of 10 for perl's superiority over C) :-). (/bin/mv has to be very complicated to handle things like recursive moves across file systems, preserving all attributes.) Bruce
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