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.