I was reading the replays to "bat files on Linux" and was worried about how many people still defend such a old fashion piece of crap language called "Perl". Perl suck. Perl is parasitic, Perl goes nowhere. Yes, it was great 30 years ago when theory on software languages was in its childhood but hey, wake up, those days you have much better languages to do what Perl can do and many other things Perl just can't. I could list a few but I will just point to Python. It's much easier, much more powerfull, much cleaner, much more versatile, much faster, much more productive. Cross platform (Unix, Windows, Mac, ...). Just look how many proffesional software packages run with Python (Mailman -www.list.org-, Plone -www.plone.org-, PythonCad (www.pythoncad.org), google.com -some parts of it-, Redhat Install & Config tools, PyUnit, ...). Even big consultancies are dropping Java and .Net in favor of Python due to its greater productivity. Or look here http://www.scripps.edu/~sanner/python/ or here : http://simpy.sourceforge.net/ or just here: http://www.python.org/workshops/1996-06/papers/d.arnold/paper.html ¡try all that stuff with parasitic-Perl if you dare! Sincerelly I think Perl is right now one of the best allyes of M$ against Unix and Linux in particular. ¡Drop Perl as soon as possible!