[TriLUG] "awk, bash date, sleep" sed od man; chown perl, grep cat, rm tail, finger toe, rm tar

[Blackburn, Marvin]

Take a look at the powershell.  It's the coming thing in command
line/scripting.
Get proficient in that and I have to believe it will "bear fruit".

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-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Peter Neilson
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 2:46 PM
To: TriLUG
Subject: [TriLUG] "awk, bash date, sleep" sed od man; chown perl, grep
cat, rm tail, finger toe, rm tar

I like all those arcane things. I like command line stuff, especially 
the Unix variety in preference to MS-DOS, which I always attack via 
cygwin. But I'm not in any situation where anyone pays me to do those 
things anymore. Do such jobs exist?

I mean, I'm the sort of person who prefers to use

   ls foo* > xfoomlist
   emacs xfoomlist

under cygwin rather than trying to mess with Winders software to 
accomplish anything similar. Indeed, I even tend to use emacs as my 
front end to an OS whenever possible.

The obvious position is Unix sys admin, but I already have a weekend 
job, and nearly every sys admin position requires weekends or even swing

shifts. Also, I'm not really up for moving to far-away places.

My "usual" tech writing jobs are now unusually scarce, and are all so 
very micro-softened. Any crazy suggestions?
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