Well I like working with Python and tcsh for shell scripts. I suppect 
perl has more features though. if you're a php programmer I've also 
started using it for shell scripts. (works great for connecting to a 
database).

Carl Parrish

Chris Cowan wrote:

>I'm interested in learning a scripting/programming language for automating
>some task on my Linux box...
>
>Does anyone have experience with Bash, Perl, Python or any others that I'm
>missing?
>
>Any one language have more features than the other?
>
>I welcome all opinions on the subject...
>
>Chris
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