That was picking an example from my previous try to work with ps. I was not the admin of the server so no installation of extra programs. Or upgrading ps to the

That was picking an example from my previous try to work with ps. I was not the admin of the server so no installation of extra programs. Or upgrading ps to the newest version. The shell scripting I have needed has been typically very simple. Like schedule to copy this file from that server and run this command.(what was precisely all that I was trying to achieve the last time, only the file was compressed. Would have done with .bat, but that was even more difficult) As you say, using it as a glue and build the complexity to the programs behind the shell.