From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 6:20:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 049E637B424 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 06:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e88DKQn00224; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 15:20:26 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 15:20:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: Philipp Huber Subject: RE: what language should i learn next ? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 08-Sep-00 Philipp Huber wrote: > 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. > Hear, hear. I started with awk and sed. Wonderful stuff for short many-a-day programs. Awk is really more than that if you want it to. A real must for sysadmin. I lack shell programming - I'm constantly reminded of it. I really should know it by now. I'd rather use Python instead of Perl. My 2 ore. ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message