Linux® and Windows® Interoperability Guide

Administration

A productive use of scripting is for repetitive, nontrivial enterprise or campus administrative tasks whose numbers go beyond what can be easily carried out by an interactive user. Such tasks must be carried out error-free and may need repeating at intervals. For instance, a university professor teaching CS 101 may need to establish and populate student accounts with files for 150 computer science students. She would need to delete the accounts at the end of the semester. She would want a mailing list as a byproduct of the operation. Scripting is right for these types of tasks, especially if the tasks span Windows XP and Red Hat Linux 7.1 platforms.

Another type of task may involve grabbing file and print shares in a login profile ...