[Mono-list] Scripting the Linux OS with Mono

[Shawn Vose]

I did something similar; however, my cs file was already compiled into a 
dll. I then created an exe that would take command line arguments, the 
args were the name of the dll to load and, the method to execute, and 
the parameters it expected. All of this was done using Refelection. I 
didnt do it for start up scripts or anything I did it as an integration 
suite with third party vendors who needed their data in a format that 
was different from mine. Once I had the Integration Bus written(exe) 
whenever the bossman came in and asked if we could send over data to 
someone else using package X it was only a matter of making X.dll and 
setting it up to be loaded by the Integration Bus in cron (or a job in 
sql server, or...) with its respective arguments.


mono IntegrationBus.exe -t dlls/X.dll -m SomeClass -props 
startDate='10/01/2005',endDate='10/31/2005',propertyID=10 -meth SomeMethod

Reflection is cool.

Regards,
Shawn Vose

ted leslie wrote:

>I too find it appealling to use C# in place of perl, etc.
>I am not sure what your asking can happen with the mono distro.
>you could however, if you don't want to just have
>my_script.cs
>my_script.exe
>as a "pair" and use the exe to execute your script, that goes without saying.
>
>i guess you could make a shell script that woud say
>
>monoscript my_script.cs <arg1> <arg2>
>
>that would compile it to a temporary file /tmp/csexe_<uniqueid>.exe (in tmp?)
>and run the exe with the args essentially giving you what you want
>and removing the tmp exe when done ?
>
>no different then
>
>perl my_script.pl <arg1> <arg2>
>
>just that "monoscript" is this shell beast you write, which would be a few lines.
>
>except you would have to know how to "make" your exe based on whats in the *.cs file
>and not what would be in a Makefile, for its libraries ?
>
>i would personally love to see more movement in this area .. i.e. mono/C# as a linux/unix
>scripting language!
>maybe in the end it just needs to be formalized by someone at mono?
>
>
>-tl
>
>
>On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:02:49 -0500
>Abe Gillespie <abe.gillespie at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Hey all,
>>
>>I was wondering if there's any easy way to run C# scripts in Mono. 
>>I'm fairly new to Linux (just at about a year) and I'd like to avoid
>>learning yet another language (Perl, sh, etc.).  Has anyone written a
>>.Net program that takes a file as input and runs that code?  Perhaps
>>Mono can do this natively?  How cool would it be to have startup
>>scripts written in C#?!
>>
>>Thanks for the help as always.
>>-Abe
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