Your missing the point. The perl code will produce the shell script. As stated in my email i am reading from a excel spreadsheet. It contains values that I want to extract then run a set of shell scripts. The purpose of the scripts is to automate executions for engineers who are designing using Excel and have no knowledge of shell scripting at all. The data in excel contain information that is need to setup a storage infrastructure. So what is happening is this: Excel -> ready by perl script. Perl Script produces shell script that configures my storage environment. it will build out the environment. That way I don't have to spend all day configuring the script every time. Now do you understand?

In reply to Re^2: Script Automation by OkieUnix
in thread Script Automation by OkieUnix

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