Dean Wilson@UnixDaemon: ... It's not even close to relevant.

Wed, 23 Aug 2006

Is Perl Installed? Don't use this script to check!
Over at use.perl.org Ovid recently posted How to tell if Perl is installed on your computer , an entry that points to a shell script that must die. Go and read the script in the post, I'll wait.

Note: this isn't his code and he's blame free, he just found it and started waving it like a red flag so the anal shell scripters among us have something to moan about :)

Firstly why use ksh? The script doesn't do anything neat so just use sh, which exists on almost all Unix machines in some form (even if it's bash in a dress playing pretend). Secondly, why do a which perl and then COMPLETELY IGNORE the results? You might as well just run perl -V on the command line as you're using $PATH anyway. GAH!

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Posted: 2006/08/23 01:39 | /justdont | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date

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