Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?

["s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>]

Bob McGowan <bob_mcgowan@symantec.com>:
>  Damon L. Chesser 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?
> 
>  Several other responses suggest "sh", with "awk" and "sed", etc.
> 
>  I second those suggestions, but have one thing to add:  learn regex 
>  syntax, and learn it well.  They can be "mind benders", but if you don't 
>  know how to use them, your use of UNIX/Linux command line utilities will 
>  suffer.

I strongly agree, and this knowledge is portable.  All of the *nix
tools, including shell, perl, and python, rely on regex
understanding.


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