Would you say then that shell scripting is a beneficial "language" to learn? I have read blog posts saying that learning to shell script is a waste of time.
Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
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Depends on what you're doing. If you ever need to do OS-level tasks (rather than pure application-development), then it's foolish not to learn how to automate and optimize the execution of those tasks.
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Would you say then that shell scripting is a beneficial "language" to learn? I have read blog posts saying that learning to shell script is a waste of time.
Depends on what you're doing. If you ever need to do OS-level tasks (rather than pure application-development), then it's foolish not to learn how to automate and optimize the execution of those tasks.