[X-Unix] shell scripting

Stroller MacMonster at myrealbox.com
Fri Jan 16 02:46:28 PST 2004


On Jan 16, 2004, at 3:24 am, Bert Knabe wrote:
>>
>> perl makes a better Unix scripting toolbox that shell scripts or C++.
>
> That seems to be the general consensus. Since it looks like scripting 
> may be a big part of my future, guess I'll pick up some books on perl.

Learning a new language is over-kill for this task. Shell scripting & 
the use of `cron` should be quite adequate.

Stroller.



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