Re: [tlug] What is the most appropriate scripting language

[Gerald Naughton <naughton123@example.com>]

Hi Dave

> If I were working on that *other* operating system,
> I would accomplish 
> the following task with a .bat file.
> 
> However, on Linux, I'm not sure which scripting
> language I should be 
> using. It seems there are so many, and I'm not sure
> what the difference is.
> 
> What I want to do is create a script that will:
> 
> 1. Append some information to the top of some text
> files. Mainly a 
> timestamp.
Do a shell (not sure which one that you want)
 here is a simple csh script

setenv DDD "aaa bbb"
 foreach ff($DDD)
 echo $ff
   #DO YOUR TIMESTAMP with temp files
   # echo $TIMESTAMP > AAA
   #  cat $AAA $YOUR_FILE > aaa
   
 end


  end
> 
> 2. Bundle all the files into a tar file.
 tar -cvzf your_tarfile.tgz $DDD
> 
> 3. Upload the files to a number of different FTP
> sites.
Look at
http://www.mcwalter.org/technology/shell/ftp.html


> 
> 4. If possible: email the tar file to one or more
> email addresses.
 CSH 
 uuencode &  mail ?

best regards
g
> 
> These are tasks I'm doing over and over with the
> same files, so it would 
> save me oodles of time to automate this process.
> 
> I'm okay with keeping username and passwords for
> these FTP sites in 
> plain text in the script file, as the security risk
> is extremely limited.
> 
> What would be the appropriate scripting language,
> and might there be a 
> resource which would help a newbie like me set up
> the above tasks?
> 
> Thank you for any advice.
> 
> --
> Dave M G
> Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
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> Pentium D Dual Core Processor
> PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2
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