Today I wrote a shell script for work. (No, I'm not at work today, but I wanted to solicit Jeff's help.) The script uses seven good traditional Unix utilities: cat, comm, cut, grep, sed, sort, and tail; it contains 20 lines of real code (excluding blank lines and comments). I am quite proud of it; it is the first semi-complex shell script that I have ever written.
My satisfaction with this little shell script made me think about how happy I am to work in a Unix shop, where my experience with the command line, Unix utilities, and scripting is useful and appreciated. Not only that, but I now have a Linux computer on my desk at work. I am much more productive now than I was on Windows, and I am happy to be hard-core.
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