I'm going to hope that was an interesting autocorrect rather than a description... :) Poor Jared... Stephan Uzzell From: Sriram Kumar [mailto:k.sriramkumar@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, 23 March, 2013 09:40 To: Uzzell, Stephan Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Semi-OT: Shell Scripting for dummies Hi , My suggestion is look at Perl or python so that you have a stable scripting platform across many o.s. My favorite is a book called Perl for oracle dbas by our fellow lister hated still. I am not aware of any migration tools for porting your scripts... Happy migration to Linux....welcome to open source o.s Best regards Sriram -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l