On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 02:55:55PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote:
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.
As one who has never been able to get my head around regex, I can attest
to that. I sometimes end up writing a python script rather than a regex
one-liner just because I hate regex (or it hates me).
As for the add, why not phone them up and ask?
Personally, I prototype in Python. If it runs fast enough then its
done. If it doesn't, they I turn it into Ada (which is surprisingly
like python and nothing like C) and compile it. If its a pure
engineering problem, I'll use Fortran77.
However, being able to do simple things and being able to read more
complex sh scrips is almost required in UNIX.