im using win32 :P

can you tell me what that is?

How would i go about storing the time it took to excecute my script into a variable?

any help would be appreciated :)

i have a few questions
1)Is shell scripting for the windows cmd line?
2)how fast is it?
3)can anyone recomend any tutorials to learn it?

any help would be appreciated :)

thanks for the quick and in-depth reply, What kind of things have people have managed to do with shell scripting?

also, i know this might not be the right place to ask, but how do people become a...

What is shell scripting?