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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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