php and shell scripting

Hi. I'm new to the list, and hope that my subscription here can be an enjoyable time. Now that that's out, I do have a *real* point to this post, so here goes: Do any of you (or should it be how many of you) use php for shell scripting and other assorted tasks that you would normally use perl for? I do, and i've had great luck so far in writing function scripts to do a lot of stuff on my systems. So, there's my question/comment Thanks, - j