I won''t defend Perl syntax. I hate it.

I will point out the Perl/Python/etc. have built-in functions for directory (et al.) routines to abstract away these platform-dependent operations.

quote: Original post by RomSteady
That being said, even though you can use Perl or Python as a scripting language on multiple platforms, remember that each platform has a seperate command set. Passing "ls -l" to a Windows box (unless you have a set of *nix-compatible tools installed) will generally not work.

That''s why you would use os.listdir( ''.'' ) instead. The Python library is so vast that there is very rarely a need to call out to native commands.



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