[ale] Programming Question - Where to Start

[Bao C. Ha]

> 
> I am not necessarily married to the idea of learning Perl, 
> but my goal is to
> become a competent Linux SysAdmin in all respects (I decided 
> to take this
> course instead of the MCSE road last year).  I have come to 
> understand that
> in order to do this, I will have to learn some programming, and I have
> gotten the impression that Perl is the best language to learn 
> to support
> this desire (I know this is, to an extent, a bit subjective, 
> but isn't Perl
> used everywhere with Linux?).  I am not opposed to learning 
> Python first if
> it will help me learn Perl later, but I don't wanna get sidetracked.
> 

If you want to be a Unix sys admin, you have to know shell
scripting.  It means Bash in the Linux world.  It also
means grep, awk, sed, diff, find, blah, blah, ... 

Bao

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