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Re: How to compile a shell script?

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From: Randal L. Schwartz
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:01
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In article <14h0jrINNvd@betty.cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
   Someday someone will write sh2perl.  (Note you'd probably only really
   win on things that were more procedurally heavy than exec'ing a lot of
   different shell commands for various things.)

OK, here's sh2perl: :-)

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "#!/usr/bin/perl\nsystem <<'UnlikelyString'\n",<>,"\nUnlikelyString\n";

There.  Too easy. :-)

print "Just another Perl hacker," # in chicago.  can't be creative. :-)

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Subject: Re: How to compile a shell script?
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