On 12/13/2010 3:30 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Have a look at Lua (www.lua.org). Imo it's quite readable and less > <snip> > Don't. I have literally never heard of it before, It's quite popular in some areas, particularly as an embedded scripting engine in games. Having written one substantial program in Lua, I can say it's not a great next step, particularly if shell scripting is a good solution to the OP's current problems. Lua is clean and simple, but as a replacement for shell...no. Just, no. Besides, it isn't in the main CentOS repo.