What language am I looking for?

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Looking to do a little scripting; I need to write two or three scripts that can do the following tasks:

1. Parse through an xml file, obtain a list of names, and create a copy of a folder full of files for each name with the name appended to the folder name.
2. Ask a user for a word, then parse through an xml file and replace a word with the given word.
3. Copy files from multiple instances of a known folder structure to another folder.

Perl? Python? Ideally I'd like something that would be simple to execute like a compiled executable, and would work on both Windows and Unix systems.

Thanks in advance

 

[Demon10000]

I'm assuming you're on a windows box....

If so, I'd look at vbscript or powershell.

I'm sure both perl and python would work as well.