Let's change the topic. What about Perl? Perl is widely used in most Unix systems where substitutes shell scripts. LPI Certification requires a bit knowledge of it. Why not asking for it too?
On 8/30/05, Lucas <
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I was compelled to say something like, it doesn't matter wich shell, as long as you
get the job done, but the cert is to be a big aid for employers and employees right?
In wich case you don't always have much to say about what shell will be used. I'd
stick with /bin/sh, that's what comes with bsd right? (not sure about Open or Net).
Lucas
> 100% agree with you...
>
> And what about compiling? Most *nix admins I know are used to compile
> most of the software their use on their systems (PHP, Samba, Apache,
> etc.) Autotools basic usage knowledge should be included...
>
> El lun, 29-08-2005 a las 15:56 -0700, Jeremy C. Reed escribió:
>> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, [ISO-8859-1] J. Rafael Gmez G." wrote:
>>
>> > I'm agree with Kevin Reiter about that C language is not necessary to admin
>> > any UNIX but I think that it is necessary to have a good level of shell
>> > programming. The real question is: What shell should be considered the de
>> > facto standard for shell programming? csh? ksh? sh?
>> > Or derivatives as tcsh, bash, o zsh?
>>
>> It would be sh. Most shell scripts are written with /bin/sh. We can't
>> assume that /bin/sh is "ksh" especially since some versions of ksh are
>> different than other versions of ksh. Also, bashisms would not be
>> appropriate for base BSD installs.
>>
>> I also think that a good level of shell programming is useful. We don't
>> know yet how basic of Unix essentials and shell programming the certs will
>> cover yet. The survey was very long as it was and it didn't even get to
>> details covering "Unix" fundamentals.
>>
>> Jeremy C. Reed
>>
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