On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mike A. Harris wrote:
The perl code present now, replaces some very ugly sed code which
used temporary files. I see no compelling technical reason to
not use perl.
It's big and causes dependency loops, and it doesn't sound necessary in
this case. ('perl -pi' uses temporary files too, it just hides them.)
The script does look a little nicer with perl, but pretty isn't enough. :\
FWIW,
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