zlacker

If I am familiar with sed, awk, grep and xargs, was I a sysadmin ?

>>aorlof+(OP)
If you are familiar with all of these but not C or Java or some other "traditional" programming language, then yes, I think anyone would guess you were a sysadmin. This was the type of background GP was talking about - people familiar with shell scripting but not any other programming language, who come by Perl for the first time.