I started out with bash scripts and .bat files and eventually found perl to be the ideal solution to 99% of what I needed as well. I'm still using it for log fi

I started out with bash scripts and .bat files and eventually found perl to be the ideal solution to 99% of what I needed as well. I'm still using it for log file parsing and day to day administrative tasks, but I'm starting to pick up python because that seems to be where everyone has agreed to move to.