2009/12/6 Agnello George <agnello.dso...@gmail.com>: > Hi Welcome
> i am basically a a system administrator, and i have just joined this new > company where my entire team are a group pf developers + system admins and i > am the only system admin with out programming knowledge . i know a little of > shell scripting from my previous company and i thought shell scripting was > king ... but having joined this company every one is using a lot of persl to > do a lot of log parsing ... DB interaction and lot of cool hashes related > stuff ... but last one year i am trying to learn this language but dont seem > to get a hold of it . sometimes i fell shell-scripting a is a lot more > better and easier .. but my aim is to learn perl scripting ... i mean how > does one get a real hold of this language ... !! > I came to Perl because I am a sys-admin. I started with awk and sed but, like your colleagues, found Perl far more far-reaching (ahh awk2perl). I started with moving and renaming files around the file system, taking disk-space stats then later putting those stats on a web interface. I'm still no expert. I regularly suffer from days where I crave to know more and understanding, seems tantalizingly, out of reach. You are going to have to leave the safety of shell-scripting that you are comfortable with and force yourself to do the un-comfortable and perform all your tasks with perl. You may even have to do a little work at home at times :) Good luck, Dp. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
