[SLL] System Administration Scripting

[Brian C. Lane]

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Eric Kahklen wrote:
> I have read a number of intro books on Perl, Python, and bash, and am able
> to digest the concepts for the most part.  The problem with most of these
> books is that their examples don't really relate to system administration
> tasks.  It would be great if there was a book written on scripting for
> System Administrators who don't have experience in the field of
> programming.  Does anyone know of a book or good resource that can help a
> scripting phobic person like myself using real world examples starting
> from easy to moderate?

There are a couple of decent sysadmin books out there, they have
chapters on scripting included. I use bash and python when I need to
script things, you can see a couple of examples from my LFNW 2008 talk
here -

http://www.brianlane.com/articles/lfnw2008/

basic threading and running shell commands from within python are covered.

Brian

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