[X-Unix] shell scripting

[Bert Knabe]

On Jan 16, 2004, at 4:46 AM, Stroller wrote:

>
> 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.

But I'm looking not just at this task, but at possible tasks in the 
future. It may be that all will be do-able from the shell, or it may 
not. I'd have to be a masochist to learn a new language just to copy 
files. :)

Bert