Noob Question

[Oleg Bogdanov]

Hello,

I stumbled across this mailing list and thought it may be a good place to ask:  As an experienced network engineer but with virtually no programming and only basic linux/unix knowledge interested in developing some monitoring/operational utilities, what do I learn first?  Awk or Perl?  Something else?

I'm interested in creating tools to run against config backups (from RANCID maybe) as well as telnet/ssh to devices to execute commands, read the output and do intelligent stuff with it.

Thanks,
Oleg B.

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