Scripting language?


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Howdy. I am a reasonably competent linux user, now I want to do some scripting. On my PC I use vbscript for some administration tasks on my machine as well as some things that fetch info from the internet. What language an I do things like this in Linux?

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perl (quite powerfull)

bash (the command line)

Perl is quite powerfull, and many programs use it for plugins and scripting. Like xchat. It's quite a usefull language to learn.

Bash is one of the command lines that's quite popular. Check that out too for writing init scripts and crontab stuff.

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bash will probably be the best one to learn first, as it basically uses the commands available at the command line prompt.

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