Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
