Mark,
Thank you for the swift suggestion. I thought it would be cool to write my own, which I have pretty much done already just working out the kinks, but that 'immortal python' looks cool. I also thought about using the subprocess module with python and still might as I have worked with that extensively.
Ideally, I wanted to use this as an exercise to improve my linux/bash scripting and do it all from scratch as it definitely seems doable. So, I kind of want to do it all from my .sh file and work with loops and such. Have you ever developed something similar in bash?
Thanks,
Brendan
