Once you start getting the hang of sysadminning, you'll get into the world of automating everything, in which case you'll want to get Perl for System Administration. Data Munging With Perl is also pretty good in this area, at least as far as dealing with big amounts of data.

xoxo,
Andy

%_=split/;/,".;;n;u;e;ot;t;her;c; ".   #   Andy Lester
'Perl ;@; a;a;j;m;er;y;t;p;n;d;s;o;'.  #   http://petdance.com
"hack";print map delete$_{$_},split//,q<   andy@petdance.com   >