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Message: [QUOTE="Prime, post: 621366"] First off thank you for all the responses! The bulk of my project is about file manipulation, copying/deleting, archiving/extracting, obtaining file size, and all this can be done, but not to remote hosts, which is why the initial use of shell scripts. The reasons I would prefer not to use shell scripts is because down the road we are switching from Solaris to a newer version of Red Hat Linux. Most likely the commands will still be the same, but using scripts does take away from being 100% Platfrom Independant. Also, it puts the strain on the Operating Environment to do the work I would like my program to do. Lastly, if something went wrong in the beginning of the script, (file permissions error, file not found error, anything), my program would not know until after the script has run. This forces me to do a large amount of error checking afterward that a try-catch block would catch immediately. Unfortunately, no remote hosts are mounted onto the /export/* folder. We have been looking into purchasing an FTP library that would do these manipulations, however, some of us have issues with storing the password or hardcoding it. It's sort of a conundrum, we want secure, remote file functions, but we want to do it by bypassing the password. Also, we would probably need client software to run on remote hosts. Thanks again for all your help, I will be checking those links, and any more information would be greatly appreciated! [/QUOTE]