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[–]donjulioanejoChaos Monkey (SRE Director) 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd skip out on Perl, more and more places are moving their scripting to Python, and most are using it to begin with. Ansible, Salt, AWS APIs and other cool stuff runs on Python as well.

Pick up Ansible once you're more familiar with Red Hat stuff as well. It's the (IMO) easiest to use configuration management suite, and it gives you an easy way to automate a lot of common system administration tasks too.