Jason Thorpe wrote:
>> from underneath me.  I think XML pretty much rules out quick-n-dirty
>> shell-fu saving the day in such cases, and I think that might be bad.
> 
> Then your fu is weak.  At may day job I have written many shell  scripts 
> that parse XML property lists to extract / migrate config  information.  

It might be interesting, at least to the putatively fu-challenged, to see
an example of such a script, and ponder whether it better exemplifies the
true fu or the accident-waiting-to-happen.  ;)

-Chap