Cool to see some Perl in a new repo. The thing I find most appealing about Perl is their backticks for going out to the shell. I know Ruby supports it too. I understand that this can be a security issue but I find the quick shelling out so powerful for a script that also needs to do some text processing or real programming logic that the shell just isn't great for.
Watch out for portability, too. Personally I would consider it a last resort exclusively for local system automation too complex for bash but for some reason python isn't available. I'm not going to pretend I understand everyone else's use case though so I'm glad it exists.
Author here: This was indeed a quick hack. And Perl is still my fastest language for banging out a quick prototype. (I used to be the Perl 5 project lead. I’ve spent a lot of time with Perl.)
