Shell Programming and Scripting

What's this WE crap. You are the only one shouting down Perl (and me) and perpetuating this mess.
And what's wrong with modules? That's boat loads of code that coders dont have to write, again. All languages have reusable libraries for cryin' out loud. Where's the fault in that? You want to strip a language of it's features and then call it useless?

I haven't reported any issues with anyone's code either. Where are you coming from? I don't claim to know it all. I learn something everyday here. And if I can help someone develop their own skill set, I will, whether you like it or not. If you check my posts you'll see that I do know some Bash, and some Perl and Python, and some C. It's no match for what you produce though, is it?

My points:
Bash has it's place, and so does Perl.

Chill out!

P.S. If you're going to quote me, punk, do it right...

I'm not shouting down Perl. I'm not sure why you perceive it that way. I explained before, I quite like Perl for some things, especially complicated regex replacements -- it sometimes outperforms my other favorite language, awk, quite a lot.

And yes, you can do lots of neat things with it. One of my favorite things about Perl is that it's a common and binary-safe scripting language. That's rare. You can use that to write file decoders which are robust enough to take seriously and will work the same everywhere. Trying to do that in shell would be a mass of egregious kludges.

Frozenbubble is a neat game, I've enjoyed it. I don't see how it's really relevant in a discussion of bash vs perl security issues, though.

Merely insinuated. Well done.

I can't think of anything else to say here which isn't just a rehash of the last few pages. We're definitely getting off-topic. If the OP ever returns, he can PM me to reopen this.