On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-02-05, Neil Cerutti <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2013-02-05, Walter Hurry <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Sorry, I'm a Linux guy. I have no clue what that means. >>> >>> Hooray for common sense! Python is great, but it's silly to use >>> Python (unless there is good reason) when a simple shell script >>> will do the job. >> >> Python is an excellent option for writing shell scripts, >> particularly if your shell is cmd.exe. > > The OP stated explicitly that the target OS was Linux:
The impression I got was that he was looking for something that would be cross-platform and work in both Windows and Linux. Python is a reasonable choice for that if you're not willing to deal with Cygwin. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
