im taking a unix course in school right now. My first project seems simple enough. take all files in the current directory that are 30+ days old and tar them. Im still a little hazy on my scripting options though. I've written very simple scripts with a .c extension, a .pl extension, some with no extension, etc. I guess im wondering, is there a language I should be using to write my own scripts? If a file has a .c extension, is that just like a C programming file? All the standard C syntax. Never done perl, but I assume Perl would be a good way to go. Are there any websites that deal with writing your own scripts in Unix that you guys recommend?

Thanks

Perl is good, but for tasks such as these, shell scripts are good too.

ie #!/bin/sh

Hmmm... IMHO perl would be overkill for this task... something like:

That script would tar up all of the files in the directory named in the first argument that were over 30 days old. The
second argument to the script would be the tar file name. To process the entire tree, remove the -maxdepth 1.

God Bless!

Zipster