Some Useful Programs

As we've now covered the basics of the file management package, we can move on to create some useful programs. Of the most common tools that are used on a daily basis in unix operating systems are cp, mv, rm, and ls. However, there exist no common ``grid enabled'' versions of these work-horses of the UNIX world. In this section we will create gird versions of these common tools.

• A Fancy-Pants cp
• Wow Your Friends with mv
• From rm to RM
• A ls -l of sorts