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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 17:05:38 -0700
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On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2013-02-05, Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> wrote:
>> On 2013-02-05, Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> wrote:
>>>> Sorry, I'm a Linux guy.  I have no clue what that means.
>>>
>>> Hooray for common sense! Python is great, but it's silly to use
>>> Python (unless there is good reason) when a simple shell script
>>> will do the job.
>>
>> Python is an excellent option for writing shell scripts,
>> particularly if your shell is cmd.exe.
>
> The OP stated explicitly that the target OS was Linux:

The impression I got was that he was looking for something that would
be cross-platform and work in both Windows and Linux.  Python is a
reasonable choice for that if you're not willing to deal with Cygwin.