Re: Preferred language for shell scripting?

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Sometimes we use the GUI, distasteful as that may be. If scripting is needed, VBScript can be used, as you indicated. There are of course as you already know, UNIX-style shells, and proprietary alternatives, Ruby interpreters, various utility programs, and I have been known to whack together C# programs that use the Directory, DirectoryInfo, File and FileInfo classes to automate common operations.

Frankly I don't have that much call for it, so don't really live in the scripting world that much and haven't developed a strong preference for anything in particular. Visual Studio takes care of 99% of the file management required for a project and that's where I do most of my development.

--Bob

Javaman59 wrote: 
Hi all,

I'm a Unix guy from way back, who's enjoying learning C# and Windows programming. Overall, it's not such a difficult transition (as long as one keeps an open mind :) ), but there is one thing from Unix I miss the most - the command line.

I've install a Unix like programming environment, call MSys, which let's me do command line programming the way I want to, with the bash shell, and this is running smoothly (vim editor, bash, C# compiler, SDK documentation - all working).

I'm wondering though, what do experienced Windows programmers use for shell commands, and scripts. Surely not DOS - I mean, that sucks. I've heard of VB-Script and Javascript being used as shell scripts, but I wouldn't know where to begin with that, and wouldn't know if it is worth trying.

Surely don't open Windows Explorer every time you want to move or rename a file? LOL!

So, what do you guys use?

- Javaman (showing his roots)

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