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Re: [Sheflug] Scripting
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 07:30:23PM +0000, rhinecourt [at] btopenworld.com wrote:
>
> I have alot of disks, which I would like to get the names of direcories
> and files etc off. I was thinking of learning a programming language so
> as I could write a script to automate the task. Would perl be easy enough
> to learn to do the job? Or would a simple bash script or something be
> better? Any feedback would be great...cheers
>
A bash script should do what you're looking for. The Advanced Bash-Scripting
Guide is very good.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
HTH
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