I would consider it essential to at least be comfortable writing and
maintaining shell-scripts.  Your Linux system has a lot of shell-scripts
that bring the box up and keep it going, so being able to read them and
modify them will improve your Linux knowledge.  Plus, shell-scripting is
an easy place to start for someone interested in programming.
O'Reilly has a Bash book if you're interested.  http://www.oreilly.com
~M


Quoting Chris Cowan <chris@ctprm.com>:

> 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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