I went the opposite way. I started out writing few liner bash scripts that just basically wrapped my perl script with proper environment vars, args, etc. and do

I went the opposite way. I started out writing few liner bash scripts that just basically wrapped my perl script with proper environment vars, args, etc. and do all the heavy lifting in Perl. It also happens that my dad was a a build engineer back when they didn't really have a title for it and his Swiss Army knife was Perl. I literally learned coding beyond BASIC on HP-UX, Solaris, and Perl. At some point, I just started doing more and more in bash and started using Perl only specifically for anything I was having trouble getting working with sed+awk. As of today it's probably been 3+ years since I wrote anything in Perl, I'll just drop to Python if I need it now. Also my sed and awk skills have gotten better.