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Discussion on: Don't Use Bash for Scripting (All the Time)

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Corey McCarty

I personally use python scripts for anything that stands alone or anything that benefits from internal classes. Anything running in my build server and needing system utilities like scp and ssh to push data around goes in a bash script for ease. This came about after spending a great deal of time chaining bash commands together into one liners that did a great deal of heavy lifting for me regularly. I stepped from one liners into bash scripts, and eventually decided that a good bit of the work that I was doing would be more easily written in python, and for the most part I've been able to keep with python for all things that are not deploying my java applications.

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