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| On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 09:14:12AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>>> "Woodchuck" == Woodchuck <djv@bedford.net> writes: > > Woodchuck> Perl has obviated the need for some sort of interactive interpreted > Woodchuck> system language. Bash has some new and expanded features, but not > Woodchuck> enough to make its use compelling. > > Since discovering Perl, the longest thing I ever write in any shell > script is .profile, and that's annoying enough, and making me wish > I could just cut the cord and use Perl as my login shell. I'm almost certain you can. It still isn't a good thing to use for root, for obvious reasons (and a statically linked perl is a little too big). Joachim |