[wplug] Linux Bat Files

[Chester R. Hosey]

Matthew J. Hughes wrote:
> Did you ever get this worked out? I have a Shell scripting book you
> could borrow if you want. Or you could check and see if it is still in
> the O'Reilly open book. O'Reilly keeps a lot of there out of print books
> online and some pages/chapters of others are available. Let me know
> before next G.U.M. personnally I think you would be better off with perl
> than sh or bash, but not all would agree with me.

If he's looking to execute a simple list of commands, I'd be pretty
inclined to say that a simple [ba]sh script would be "better" in terms
of cleanliness and maintainability than an equivalent Perl script. Once
the logic overwhelms the "run exactly these commands" sections, I'd lean
more towards Perl.

If you disagree, I'd be interested in learning what I'm missing! If you
agree, I may have misinterpreted the scope of your statement.

Just curious,

Chet