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Because unix? :)

• pretoriusB 14y ago
  The Unix philosophy has nothing to do with this. It's not like the stuff inside the script can't be standalone classes of the "do one thing and do it well" variety --they just don't get to be processes.
  • mercurial 14y ago
    On the other hand, you may not want to reimplement sed, grep, etc in your scripting language of choice. There are times where a good "perl -e" can be very useful in a shell script.