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Re:Bash-Fu by wladimir on Thursday March 24, 2011 @07:49AM (#2363633)
Indeed, I've long ago adopted the convention to do any remotely advanced scripting in a "real" scripting/programming language (myself, I use Python for this).

Bash scripting is good for running a few commands in a sequence, but in my experience gets unmaintainable and unreadable very quickly, especially if you try to do sane error handling/logging, or operations on non-text data.

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Re:Bash-Fu by billybob on Thursday March 24, 2011 @07:54AM (#2363643)
Agreed. Although I should add that it's still great to call out to the standard Unix toolset when it's the easiest way to get something done. The accepted answer here illustrates that: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4714043/what-is-the-best-...
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