Re: Scripting on NT

I am faced with the same problem. Perl is a good choice I guess. I have been able to most of my Unix simulations with perl. And the system command is pretty good too..

Murali
Alan Moorman <alm2_at_XYZemail1.dss.state.va.us> wrote in message news:azeO4.1$s5.103_at_dit4.state.va.us...
> Sorry to hear that you've switched from Unix to NT! I, too, needed a good
> scripting tool for managing our lone NT instance. Chose Perl since I
 could
> write the same basic scripts for either Perl or Unix. The Perl scripting
> has worked quite well for handling our cold backups (we won't discuss RMAN
> or OEM here). Also, using Perl's "system" function I was able to invoke
 the
> command-line version of WinZip to copy and compress the datafiles in one
> step.
>
> HTH
>
> Alan
>
>
> Aaron wrote in message <8eaf8f$1hd$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
> >I'm curious in hearing about other people's experiences with writing
> >scripts on NT. I just made the switch from Unix to NT, and I feel like
> >I'm working with one hand tied behind my back now. I need a good, low
> >cost solution. A product like MKS ($400 a pop) would be out of range.
> >Has anybody tried using perl or java? I would like to have something
> >that would be portable to Unix since we might be getting it around here
> >sometime in the future.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
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> >Before you buy.
>
>
>
Received on Fri Apr 28 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT