I have said that to my management, but no one on our team is anywhere near a programmer....we deal with network, information and system security...unfortunantly the *nix team doesn't want to do this, so systems security such as this falls under our umbrella.

I do, however, see the need for quick scripting languages so I am going to learn Perl as my time permits.

As for asking others, useful answers "usually" come from people that know how to do what is needed and someone like me could end up at a result that is neither elegant or takes into account 'known' problems. If I learn from the people that know how dto do what is needed then I learn the correct way to do it as well as...I can read proper code

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