Thoughts on Bash vs. Perl

mark_merchant

Does anyone have any thoughts on speed and/or weight of Perl vs. Bash ( or

another shell ) when running script monitors?

The included Perl examples seem heavy-handed at best. Eg. the one I'm looking at

at the moment just runs some grep and awk commands under the blankets. Surely,

this would be better accomplished using pure Perl?

And, if you really wanted the grep/awk stuff, wouldn't it be better to just run

them from a nice lightweight shell rather than Perl.

Seems to be the worst of both worlds.

Thx.

brscott

I agree.  If doing basic grep/sed/awk and done.  Just use bash.

On the flip side, bash is by all standards a full fledged scripting language, but please for the love of everyone that have to read it later, don't.... just don't.  Yes you can create multi dimensional hash arrays in bash, but if you are going that far, just convert your Perl code to camel code:

Perl Camel code - render 4 ascii camels from camel-styled source code. · GitHub