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Ruth Holloway has been a system administrator and software developer for a long, long time, getting her professional start on a VAX 11/780, way back when. She spent a lot of her career (so far) serving the technology needs of libraries, and has been a contributor since 2008 to the Koha open source library automation suite. Ruth is currently a Perl developer and project lead at Clearbuilt. You can find out more about Ruth's passions and career at her site. She's a mother, grandmother, wife, artist, public speaker, and mommy to the cutest little dog you'll ever meet.
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Ben, it's certainly revitalized my novel-writing effort!
TIMTOWTDI, of course, and that's one, although I tried it on a box I had sitting around (CentOS 7, with bash as my shell), and got an error...which is precisely the point. It may work--for some users, on some shells, some of the time. Using Perl as an abstraction layer of sorts lets you not worry about the exact implementation, if you have a group of unlike systems. Copy the script to anything that can run Perl, and it Just Works.