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For work related stuff? Knowing how to use a *nix command line and the various programs in the textutils, fileutils, and related packages.
I also tend to write programs - from simple aliases and scripts to full blown applications - to do what appear to be repetitive processes as soon as I realize I'll be doing the same thing more than once or twice.
15 years ago I saw three of our employees doign their every-two-years "build the catalog by cutting and pasting from this excel document to that excel document". Took 'em 3 weeks every two years to do this. First year they were moved into my department, I looked at what they were doing, sent them to go get me a cup of coffee across campus (about a 15 minute round trip) and when they returned I had a simple shell script that would do the entire job in about 10 minutes of run time, using cat, cut, sed, and grep.
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