While I don't have anything against Perl, for an Exchange administrator rationalizing ways to avoid learning Powershell is not a good career move.
IMHO. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 1:37 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: script to dump perms on exchange server, storage group & databases > Oh yuck! I can't write a decent batch file, now how in the world am I > going to learn a totally new language like Powershell? Ah yes, the dos/cmd batch language, perhaps the only thing more obtuse and unforgiving than sql. I always seem to fall back on <http://www.allenware.com/icsw/icswref.htm> since I can never seem to remember what exact incantation of a for loop I'm supposed to type in ;) As for powershell? Well, besides the books and links posted in the recent past on this list I think that another interesting/productive route would be to learn a little of the Perl scripting language. <http://www.activestate.com/> Powershell is *amazingly* similar to Perl, though going from Perl to Powershell is not as close as C to C++. Still, I think many would have some "aha!" moments if they did a few short sessions with Perl. Watch out though if you go this route. With Perl, it is easy to get sucked into a functional/procedural style of coding and Perl's regex implementation is addicting (Powershell has no ~=). Using regexes to modify data in the pipeline is NOT what you do in powershell. This is a mental obstacle for me to this very day, since I have a Perl background. Without discipline, Perl can also get very unstructured and hard to read. This is one area in which Powershell seriously trumps Perl and is much, much better. ~JasonG -- ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ************************************************************************************************** Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. ************************************************************************************************** ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
