From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 9:25: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD6C537B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:25:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from craigc (ip133.gte8.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.237.133]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA27535; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:25:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <082d01c018e9$fc0fbbb0$0201010a@craigc> From: "Craig Critchley" To: "Philipp Huber" , References: Subject: Re: what language should i learn next ? Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:37:59 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Philipp Huber" > On 07-Sep-00 Jason Holland wrote: > > > > Learn shell scripting first, its extremly important. > > shell scripting is of course even more powerful with tools like sed & > awk, so it would be good to take a look at them as well. > Shell scripting with sed and awk is of course even more powerful when you use perl. Honestly, these days, if you have to resort to awk, you should really be using perl, though I still use sed from time to time... ...Craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message