What is the basic difference you find between a shell
script and perl?

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What is the basic difference you find between a shell script and perl?..

Answer / deepak kumar pandey

Shell script is platform(OS) only for Unix
flavour,dependent whereas perl is OS independent

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What is the basic difference you find between a shell script and perl?..

Answer / sushil

Shell script is scripting language where as perl is
programming lang.
Scripting lang need not be compliled .. perl compiles the
program before executing the script.

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What is the basic difference you find between a shell script and perl?..

Answer / manhar chavan

shell script is scripting language where as perl is
programming lang.
Scripting lang need not be compliled .. perl compiles the
program before executing the script.

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