At risk of starting a religious war on shells, (and because I figured
I'd give y'all something more interesting to talk about than top-posts),
I thought I'd go ahead and ask:
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
one: to automate server tasks my way, just as Jeff did with his
ntpupdate script recently. I tend to prefer tcsh for my shell, but am
acutely aware that many/most people stick to bash (so much so that my
root identities on all servers still use bash just in case...)
Later on I'll tackle PHP(4?) so I can get away from using FrontPage to
design websites... <grin>
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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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