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Re: [cobalt-users] Shell Scripting
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Shell Scripting
- From: Jens Kristian Søgaard <jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Jan 29 19:04:01 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Hi all,
> I'm about to start learning to script on Linux. (Yes, I've ignored this
> facet of my education in the past.) However, I have no clue as to
> whether perl or shell-scripts (or something else) is the best first
> choice for general-purpose scripting.
> What would you recommend? My purpose is, I imagine, the most pedestrian
I would recommend Perl. But ofcourse, TIMTOWDI.
I use Perl as one of the most important tools in system administration.
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Jens Kristian Søgaard, Mermaid Consulting I/S,
jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
http://www.mermaidconsulting.com/