On Sun, 20 May 2012, Craig Rosenblum wrote: > I am already working on a web-based movie player page, as an alternative > to using software, based on a bash script that generates html based > pages that allow me to scroll through local movies and then play them. > Not done yet, but getting closer. By "local" do you mean on local drives? Are they DVD ISOs or MPEG files or what? > I love working on bash scripts. And I was always a big fan of automating > things on windows, so I look forward to learn how to do automation in > linux. I guess it's kinda like this: dos batch --> bash script scheduler --> crontab I'm sure the suggestion to learn python or perl was a good one, but I do a lot in bash and I think it is very worth knowing. It helps a lot to have bash skills when you need to do something quickly from the command line. You can do a lot with bash. Welcome to the club. Mike