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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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NAME
Schedule::At - OS independent interface to the Unix 'at' command SYNOPSIS
require Schedule::At; Schedule::At::add(TIME => $string, COMMAND => $string [, TAG =>$string]); Schedule::At::add(TIME => $string, COMMAND => @array [, TAG =>$string]); Schedule::At::add(TIME => $string, FILE => $string) %jobs = Schedule::At::getJobs(); %jobs = Schedule::At::getJobs(JOBID => $string); %jobs = Schedule::At::getJobs(TAG => $string); Schedule::At::readJobs(JOBID => $string); Schedule::At::readJobs(TAG => $string); Schedule::At::remove(JOBID => $string); Schedule::At::remove(TAG => $string); DESCRIPTION
This modules provides an OS independent interface to 'at', the Unix command that allows you to execute commands at a specified time. Schedule::At::add Adds a new job to the at queue. You have to specify a TIME and a command to execute. The TIME has a common format: YYYYMMDDHHmm where YYYY is the year (4 digits), MM the month (01-12), DD is the day (01-31), HH the hour (00-23) and mm the minutes. The command is passed with the COMMAND or the FILE parameter. COMMAND can be used to pass the command as an string, or an array of commands, and FILE to read the commands from a file. The optional parameter TAG serves as an application specific way to identify a job or a set of jobs. Returns 0 on success or a value != 0 if an error occurred. Schedule::At::readJobs Read the job content identified by the JOBID or TAG parameters. Returns a hash of JOBID => $string where $string is the the job content. As the operating systems usually add a few environment settings, the content is longer than the command provided when adding the job. Schedule::At::remove Remove an at job. You identify the job to be deleted using the JOBID parameter (an opaque string returned by the getJobs subroutine). You can also specify a job or a set of jobs to delete with the TAG parameter, removing all the jobs that have the same tag (as specified with the add subroutine). Used with JOBID, returns 0 on success or a value != 0 if an error occurred. Used with TAG, returns a hash reference where the keys are the JOBID of the jobs found and the values indicate the success of the remove operation. Schedule::At::getJobs Called with no params returns a hash with all the current jobs or dies if an error has occurred. It's possible to specify the TAG or JOBID parameters so only matching jobs are returned. For each job the key is a JOBID (an OS dependent string that shouldn't be interpreted), and the value is a hash reference. This hash reference points to a hash with the keys: TIME An OS dependent string specifying the time to execute the command TAG The tag specified in the Schedule::At::add subroutine Configuration Variables o $Schedule::At::SHELL This variable can be used to specify shell for execution of the scheduled command. Can be useful for example when scheduling from CGI script and the account of the user under which httpd runs is locked by using '/bin/false' or similar as a shell. EXAMPLES
use Schedule::At; # 1 Schedule::At::add (TIME => '199801181530', COMMAND => 'ls', TAG => 'ScheduleAt'); # 2 @cmdlist = ("ls", "echo hello world"); Schedule::At::add (TIME => '199801181630', COMMAND => @cmdlist, TAG => 'ScheduleAt'); # 3 Schedule::At::add (TIME => '199801181730', COMMAND => 'df'); # This will remove #1 and #2 but no #3 Schedule::At::remove (TAG => 'ScheduleAt'); my %atJobs = Schedule::At::getJobs(); foreach my $job (values %atJobs) { print " ", $job->{JOBID}, " ", $job->{TIME}, ' ', ($job->{TAG} || ''), " "; } AUTHOR
Jose A. Rodriguez (jose AT rodriguez.jp) perl v5.14.2 2012-04-24 At(3pm)