> I'm not sure I'm comfortable with python for a typical shell script. But then again, what alternatives exist? perl still exists, and is a wonderful alternati

> I'm not sure I'm comfortable with python for a typical shell script. But then again, what alternatives exist? perl still exists, and is a wonderful alternative to python for "shell scripts plus". The syntax should be at least vaguely familiar to anyone who has touched bash, awk, sed, etc.