\_ For now I'm using perl on the file after it was created. Already had to do
\_ that for something else, so it's not a great sin, just something else to
\_ try to move back to shell later on :).

You make it sound so hard:

lartmebofh% perl foo.pl
<...>
lartmebofh% cat > foo.sh
#!/bin/sh

perl foo.pl
^D
lartmebofh% chmod +x foo.sh
lartmebofh% foo.sh
<...>
lartmebofh%

simple as pie.

David

:-)