nice write up, starred it for future hand outs to my friends. I do find that once my bash script is going over a hundred lines or so it's likely a good time to

nice write up, starred it for future hand outs to my friends. I do find that once my bash script is going over a hundred lines or so it's likely a good time to move to python. I love bash, it's great; at some point setting up a proper script (in bash) with arguments, options, logging and or validation you end up spending more time getting it to work than you do on solving the actual problem; enter your favorite programming language here.