Thanks daniel, I'll pass that on. Unfortunately due to the nature of the scientific program he is interfacing with, shell script is it as far as I am aware. I'll let you know how he goes.
-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Lawson [mailto:daniel(a)meta.net.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 24 January 2006 9:33 a.m.
I can't help you on campus (work in Auckland now) and most of the WAND people who would help are in Dunedin for LCA I beleive. However, there are some good guides online which may help a bit:
The advanced bash scripting guide is an excellent resource: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ Another guide I've suggested at times is here: http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/unix/bash-tute.html The RUTE book may help as well http://rute.sf.net/
And various WAND/WLUG members have at times run "intro to linux" tutorials which covered basic bash scripting, but I can't find the website any more!
If he's doing some serious file processing, he may find that a more full-featured programming language such as python (www.python.org) may be more useful.
Confused? Excellent...