Converting shell script to Objective-C CLI

Question

I am planning to convert a rather long shell script I have into an Objective C command line tool. I'm planning to use NSTask to run the shell commands (this is a large script, and it has several thousand copy/move/delete operations). My question is, will continually allocating and deallocating NSTask objects to run all these commands result in a large performance hit?

Is there a better way to do it than using NSTask?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you're just moving/copying/deleting files, have you considered using NSFileManager?