On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:57 PM, John Maher <jo...@rotair.com> wrote: >> > A script is just a subset of a full fledged program. In other words, a > program can do all a script can do and more.
That's the part you don't seem to be getting. A script is a wrapper around all of your programs and becomes a superset of all of them. At least the ones that are capable of using and generating text. It is not just limited to what any single program can do - or what is on any single machine for that matter assuming you have a tool like ssh available. At least that's the unix-inspired way of thinking. Maybe you are used to some more restricted form of scripting. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com