Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 02/25/07 20:17

walterbyrd wrote:
> Thanks for all the responses.
>
> FWIW: I did find some decent tutorials on the subect on sitepoint:
>
> http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php-command-line-1
> http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php-command-line-2
>
> These tutorials go beyond "hello world" but they certainly don't
> compare with the documentation given to using perl, or python, for sys
> admin tasks. For example, there are at least two perl books
> specifically dedicated to perl for sys admin. And at least a few
> chapters in o'reilly books dedicated to using python. I think php
> cookbook dedicates a chapter to php-cli, but again, it hardly compares
> to all the docs I find on using perl for sys admin.
>

So? Just because you don't find books on how to do it doesn't mean it
can't be done.

For instance, it could also mean those other languages *need* those
chapters/books to teach people how to do things, and PHP doesn't.

I do a lot of sysadmin tasks, but have never needed a PHP book to help
me with them. Linux admin, yes. Php admin, no.

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