Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:45:16PM +0000, Glenn Becker wrote:
>
>> I keep coming up against a wall "Solid scripting experience required"
>> in my job search (for Linux sys admin). IYHO, what would be the one
>> scripting language to learn?
>
> I would learn straight shell (sh) ... it's clunkier than bash shell but
> it's everywhere.
>
> Of course to be useful you'd have to know things like sed and some awk
> and so on: standard unix utils.
millions of lines of debian infrastructure are composed in shell
scripts. Beyond that there is: perl, python, ruby....
-k
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