scripting support or a simple how-to would be nice.

The Linux Documentation Project includes many howto's, books, and manuals available for free. You can check it out at http://www.tldp.org.

Two Howto's on scripting that can be a big help include:

The Bash Programming Introduction Howto:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/text/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO

The Bash Guide for beginners:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/Bash-Beginners-Guide.txt.gz

The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.txt.gz

I hope these help. Good luck. Shell scripting is very powerful and fun. I use it all the time and these guides helped get me started.

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Thanks-

Jim Jones

still not solved?
Can we close it admin?