Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:39:26 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: rene@xs4all.nl Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is a good language for system administration? Message-ID: <20020119173926.C89066@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20020119205810.B17795@xs4all.nl>; from rene@xs4all.nl on Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:58:11PM %2B0100 References: <20020119205810.B17795@xs4all.nl>
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On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:58:11PM +0100, rene@xs4all.nl wrote: > So I've learned how to do basic scripting in /bin/sh. But boy-oh-boy is that > language arcane. ;-) > I'll echo pretty much what the other gentleman have said by and large, go perl and /bin/sh. And add my philosophy that you make your shell scripts as generic and portable as possible. Over-documnting your scripts isn't possible:). I've crawled thru even brief scripts and wasted time figuring out old code. Few to zero comments. If you know a little awk and sed as well, you'll be able to get your arms around 'most any sysadmin-type hacks. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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