It's far easier to do it on perl. $output = `ls -lh /usr`; I don't think I can remember all the boilerplate of using the wrong language for the job if I only

It's far easier to do it on perl. $output = `ls -lh /usr`; I don't think I can remember all the boilerplate of using the wrong language for the job if I only happen to write that once a month or less. Even PHP is easy. $output = shell_exec('ls -lh /usr');