Shell Programming and Scripting

Woah, that's out of my league. I guess if you develop that, you'd have a marketable product. Good luck.

Hi Neo Have you got any other ideas on shell scripting apart from this ?

If you are going to do the web thing, Drupal (a CMS) just released a module called 'drush' which gives you a command line application for drupal. You could automate a download, install, setup, and update of drupal all from a script.

Then drop the script in the web root and have it run from there, so that way the script can tell where the web root folder is. Be a pretty cool way to automate the install of drupal and it's modules.

At my job I automate the imaging process with shell scripts. I create custom trigger policies that a binary can pull from a server using a third party product. Then have it create local accounts, set system specific settings, enable remote access for said local accounts, shift a few things around, bind the client to specified domain controller, and so on. Then at the end of it, it clears all logs and temp files and forces a reboot.