I make bash scripts to automate the configuration of new servers. Stuff like install packages, create users, create groups, configure the database, manage permissions…
I feel like that sort of stuff would be a nightmare to do in high level languages but maybe I’m just too used to bash.
As I already responded to others, my comment was meant in the context of the question, so I would not learn a scripting language in addition to Bash + a programming language.
For just running commands one-after-another, Bash is basically a minimal encoding, so no reason not to use it.
When you do start to need if-elses, loops etc., that’s where Bash starts to become somewhat difficult to read. And personally, as someone who’s not fluent in Bash control flow, I found it quite useful to do the control flow in my programming language of choice, but still just calling commands like you’d do in Bash.
Of course, this is a non-standard setup, and most target hosts will have Bash pre-installed, not rust-script, so it does obviously make a lot of sense to continue using Bash for what you’re doing.
In general, my comment was meant for programmers. An ops person might know a full-fledged programming language, but still want to learn Python, because they need to write tons of Ansible tasks or whatever.
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I make bash scripts to automate the configuration of new servers. Stuff like install packages, create users, create groups, configure the database, manage permissions…
I feel like that sort of stuff would be a nightmare to do in high level languages but maybe I’m just too used to bash.
As I already responded to others, my comment was meant in the context of the question, so I would not learn a scripting language in addition to Bash + a programming language.
For just running commands one-after-another, Bash is basically a minimal encoding, so no reason not to use it.
When you do start to need if-elses, loops etc., that’s where Bash starts to become somewhat difficult to read. And personally, as someone who’s not fluent in Bash control flow, I found it quite useful to do the control flow in my programming language of choice, but still just calling commands like you’d do in Bash.
Of course, this is a non-standard setup, and most target hosts will have Bash pre-installed, not rust-script, so it does obviously make a lot of sense to continue using Bash for what you’re doing.
In general, my comment was meant for programmers. An ops person might know a full-fledged programming language, but still want to learn Python, because they need to write tons of Ansible tasks or whatever.