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.
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