On Aug 8, 1:55pm, 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? I have experience with Bash and Perl. I use bash for my shell, but I don't use it for scripting very much any more. (There was a time though when I did extensive bourne shell programming.) I prefer to use Perl for most of my scripting. > Any one language have more features than the other? Go to Google and enter "Perl vs Python" as your search. (This has been debated extensively elsewhere and you can learn a lot about both languages by reading these debates.) You might also try searching usenet. Kevin