Hints and scripts - mostly Unix

While I have put the links to PERL here, I often find myself using awk scripts. They have all the advantages of being quick and easy as well as fast. In addition every Unix sysop should be able to code in awk

The Korn shell is possibly the most widely used shell for commercial Unix sites and is very close to the bash shell that Linux users get. So I find its the one I am often looking up. What I find both with Perl and ksh, that I can always find newer and better ways to do things: many I had thought would need coding in C

And cygwin, well I have loaded that up on several Windows servers, just so I have a powerful, simple scripting language. That seems to be the main point between Windows and *nix servers: When will Windows understand that the user is not going to be there to run jobs and check output ? Job Scheduler is not a patch on cron and cygwin gives me most of all: the proper find - finding files that are a certain age - really good for clearing up