Sadly requests from Anonymous Monk for personalised replies to me@home.com tend not to meet with enthusiastic responses. Perl can do all of what you want and more. To execute a command line command in perl you just enclose it in back ticks like this:

my $output = `rsh blah blah`;
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The output of the command is caught by $output. For info on loops see tutorials

cheers

tachyon

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