From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 21 18:13:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 374EC37B400 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 18:13:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0M2D1i78404; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:13:01 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020119205810.B17795@xs4all.nl> References: <20020119205810.B17795@xs4all.nl> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:13:00 -0500 To: rene@xs4all.nl, questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: what is a good language for system administration? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 8:58 PM +0100 1/19/02, rene@xs4all.nl wrote: >So I've learned how to do basic scripting in /bin/sh. But boy-oh-boy >is that language arcane. ;-) > >What other language do you guys advise for system administration >tasks... I am sure that you'll get different answers from different people! For simple stuff, 'sh' plus a few unix commands is good enough. Once you get a little more complicated, I would go with perl, ruby, or python. Before I learned perl, I did some fairly clever and elaborate things in awk, but I now consider that to have been the wrong choice. I would not use Java or PHP for the kinds of things which I consider "system admin" tasks. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message