Shelling out

• The Perl community has gotten increasingly dogmatic about using shell commands

• Portability concerns

  • (Mostly misplaced)

• Efficiency concerns

  • (Mostly incorrect)

• Language bigotry

  • (No comment)

• The world is full of people itching to replace this code with File::Find

  • You know who you are

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