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Perl, shell script or other for this ?

I have started working at a new job for about one month. We do software distribution via Tivoli. Some tasks involve a bunch of Tivoli plan commands on Unix. They are the same commands to do almost every day but the only difference between each day is the date in the plan name being different.

So I was thinking about scripting this process but was wondering which would be better for this. Perl, shell script or something else ?

taks involve :
- checking for plan expiration date
- checking for target plans if they are active
- cancel them (norman cancel and then force cancel if it doesn't work)
- seting up plan submissions
- submitting plans
- verifying for successful submissions/completions

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