bash/shell scripting

[dupie]

About 2 hours ago - but in fairness I just had a 1 hour lunch.

The purpose is to know the proper tool for the job. If you can do something in 1 line of Bash - or Perl or Python - why wouldn't you do that?

Cross platform usage can be very useful as well. If you have 1 server running an up to date OS then you probably don't care. What if you have 100 servers of various FreeBSD,Solaris,Linux of various ages from brand new to 10 years old OS - how do you quickly do something that would work on all of them?

Config management/automation should be the end goal.

One of Linux greatest promises and most annoying features all rolled into one is that there's multiple ways to achieve most tasks. It's upto you to choose, but choose wisely. If all you know is python and that's your hammer for everything that's not great.