May 2009
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
24h 32m
English
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Preface
Do you need tools for making your system administration work easier and more efficient? You’ve come to the right place.
Perl is a powerful programming language that grew out of the traditional system administration toolbox. Over the years it has adapted and expanded to meet the challenges of new operating systems and new tasks. If you know a little Perl, and you need to perform system administration tasks, this is the right book for you. Readers with varying levels of both Perl programming experience and system administration experience will all find something of use within these pages.
What’s New in This Edition?
A tremendous amount of work went into updating this book so it could be even better than the first edition. Here’s some of what has been improved in the second edition:
- New title
My editors and I realized that the material in this book was more about how to automate your system administration work in ways that would make your working life more efficient and pleasant than it was about Perl. While Perl is still the toolshed that makes all this possible, it isn’t the main focus of the book.
- New material
It’s hard to know where to begin on this one. The new edition is four chapters and two appendixes bigger (with a total page count that is 50% greater) than the last one. Included in this edition are a cornucopia of new tools and techniques that you are going to love. I tried to add material on the things I wished I had sysadmin-targeted material on, including: XML and YAML ...
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