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IMHO since you would be doing shell script i dont think the penelty would be super if you used os commands. i mean thats kinda what its purpose is if you ask me.

take perl for example (or other higher language programs) they will incorporate alot of the os functionality into the language so teh program dosent have to use external programs to do its job.

there was a snipit of code i think RTM posted last week or so in the perl thread where he defined a variable by calling the shell to do something perl is capable of doing internally.

but ask Per said it is best to keep it to a absolute minimum.

i wrote some perl scripts a while back on purpose i called to the shell to see the time differance when working with files and i saved nearly 10 sec by not calling to the shell and doing the same process useing perl functions and modules.

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YOKADID(1)						      General Commands Manual							YOKADID(1)

NAME

       yokadid - commandline todo system

SYNOPSIS

       yokadid [options]...

DESCRIPTION

       yokadid is a Yokadi daemon that remind you due tasks. If you want to be automatically reminded of due tasks, you can use the Yokadi daemon.
       The Yokadi daemon can be launched via desktop autostart services.

       In KDE, you must create a symlink to yokadid (or a shell script that calls it) in $HOME/.kde/Autostart/.

       ln -s `which yokadid` $HOME/.kde/Autostart/

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  options	is
       included below.

       -d, FILE --db=FILE
	      TODO database.

       -k, --kill
	      Kill Yokadi Daemon (you can specify database with -db if you run multiple Yokadid).

       -f, --foreground
	      Don't fork background. Useful for debug.

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options and exit.

SEE ALSO

       yokadi(1), xyokadi(1).

SEE ALSO

       Website: http://yokadi.github.com

       Mailing List: http://sequanux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ml-yokadi

AUTHOR

       yokadi was written by Aurelien Gateau <aurelien.gateau@free.fr> and Sebastien Renard <sebastien.renard@digitalfox.org>.

       This manual page was written by Kartik Mistry <kartik@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

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