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How much bash to learn compared with Perl?

Hello Everyone! I am somewhat new to Unix command line and don't have much experience to input on the matter so I wanted to gather some opinion's from people who have been down the road already.

Currently, I am going through a book by John Muster called "Unix Made Easy". I have gone through more than half the book and am very familiar with all basic commands, VI, various Shell syntax, variables, etc.

I am in the later part of the book where it starts getting into Expressions and Shell Scripting with AWK and SED. The book will cover these areas in a general skill set etc.

I have an interest in learning Perl scripting to gain more flexibility and use the power it has where basic shell scripting will fall short.

So with that said from a beginners point of view, how much time should I spend on Bash scripting versus just diving right into Perl Scripting etc? I would imagine with Perl you could program the same scripts as you can with Bash?

BTW.. I am specifying Bash shell because I am currently learning on Ubuntu Version 11.04. Thanks in advance for any input!!

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CPANPLUS::Shell(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					CPANPLUS::Shell(3)

NAME

       CPANPLUS::Shell - base class for CPANPLUS shells

SYNOPSIS

	   use CPANPLUS::Shell; 	    # load the shell indicated by your
					    # config -- defaults to
					    # CPANPLUS::Shell::Default

	   use CPANPLUS::Shell qw[Classic]  # load CPANPLUS::Shell::Classic;

	   my $ui      = CPANPLUS::Shell->new();
	   my $name    = $ui->which;	    # Find out what shell you loaded

	   $ui->shell;			    # run the ui shell

DESCRIPTION

       This module is the generic loading (and base class) for all "CPANPLUS" shells. Through this module you can load any installed "CPANPLUS"
       shell.

       Just about all the functionality is provided by the shell that you have loaded, and not by this class (which merely functions as a generic
       loading class), so please consult the documentation of your shell of choice.

BUG REPORTS

       Please report bugs or other issues to <bug-cpanplus@rt.cpan.org<gt>.

AUTHOR

       This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       The CPAN++ interface (of which this module is a part of) is copyright (c) 2001 - 2007, Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

       This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       CPANPLUS::Shell::Default, CPANPLUS::Shell::Classic, cpanp

perl v5.16.3							    2013-05-20							CPANPLUS::Shell(3)

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