Simon Forman wrote: > It's simple, short, and to-the-point. The equivalent python script > would be much longer, for no appreciable gain. I write most of my tiny > little helper scripts in python, but in this case, bash is the clear > winnar. (And on *nix. man pages are your best friend. Plus you get to > feel all l33t when you grok them. lol)
Thanks for the info! I might grudgingly decide to use a bash script in this case. :) And yes, it seems every time I ask a Linux question, everyone points me to a man page. Sometimes I find them difficult to decipher, but they are still a great help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list