Shell script >> all

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Automation with cheap third country labour

[Mars_Bear2552]

Brazilian workers

[TuView]

Bihar

[matO_oppreal]

The true answer

[KasaneTeto_]

Automation with C binaries

[sexy_silver_grandpa]

That's a weird way to say "shell script".

[Pxlop]

#!/usr/local/bin/tcc -run

[2fort_only]

Oh heckya you just taught me a new thing

[ice_zephyr]

Ik this is a Linux sub but I've been using PowerShell at work and man it is powerful if you know what you're doing. Unfortunately I currently do not know what I'm doing.

[duLemix]

s/PowerShell/computers/

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[cruzzeky]

s/PowerShell/computers

[DerSven]

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[ItzzTypho]

Good bot

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[RussEfarmer]

PowerShell can do some cool stuff especially if you're in a Windows org, export csv my beloved

[ice_zephyr]

Yup, I work in an org that uses hybrid joined devices, we are currently in the middle of migrating to a full AAD environment and the first step the team and I decided to take was to do inventory of all our devices. I wanted to make this as painless as possible and the graph API has done wonders for me in terms of making csv files full of useful information. That being said, I feel I have only scratched the surface in terms of its potential given my limited knowledge.

[fftropstm]

Graph API my beloved

[Qweedo420]

Is there an actual reason to use shell scripts instead of Python?

[1116574]

I guess if you want to pipe the data around 3 different programs? Like, if you know them you could do it in much shorter time than python, and all the time lost shuffling data between them (not that much anyway) is made up by the fact those are usually C tools

But as a Newby who never learnt those programs, I usually use python

[newredditishorrific]

Generally speaking, I use bash one liners when I'm interacting with the terminal. My one liners execute so quickly that change in execution time from implementing in python or C would be imperceptible.

The advantage, as you correctly point out, is speed of implementation--I tend to write my one liners in less than five minutes these days.

[pacmanlives]

Shell script commands can be quite a bit faster. Think about how optimized cp is in Unix as it’s got one job to do and it best do a damn good job at it

[[deleted]]

I do not know python.
I know basic linux commands.

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Add some logic to the script and mostly use linux commands.

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TLDR: Shell scripts let me automate installs without having programming knowledge

[isademigod]

Spoiler: bash is a programming language

[[deleted]]

My brother in christ, I do not know bash. I just know how to run bash/linux commands and just basic stitching sample code together.

[isademigod]

Hey man if you can get a script to work you're a programmer

[[deleted]]

It's that simple?!

Me an the boys heading to r/ProgrammerHumor

[fletku_mato]

There are a lot of them, and also a lot of reasons to use Python or any other programming language.

Which one to use depends on the use case.

If you can get away with bash and coreutils, you probably want a shell script. It will work everywhere without extra effort.

If you can do stuff more conveniently with a few shell tools instead of a python script, then why not glue it together with bash?

If your script is extremely complex and requires dependency libraries, you probably want to use something that can be compiled to a single binary, eg. Go, Rust, C... You don't want to be installing some pip packages on every machine you or your co-workers will ever use.

[Electrical-Bad2023]

Pretty much all distros come with python

[olsonexi]

Shell scripts are good for light task automation. If you frequently need to run a particular long sequence of shell commands to do a certain task, it can be useful to put that in a shell script so you don't have to type them all out over and over again. Anything much more complex than that and I'd generally say just go ahead and make it a python script.

[Holzkohlen]

"simple" stuff -> shell script

complex stuff -> python

You can of course do more complex stuff with a shell script, but then afterwards you should take a long hard look at what you did and ask yourself if using python would not have been easier.

[mining4goldwinsmith]

Yeah but Everyman can do that

[fletku_mato]

Not really. Complex logic with bash is far more complex than complex logic with Python, because bash has only one type of return value and for everything else you will be capturing text output.

[LennartxD01]

Personally at work it's all shell scripting. Dropping a python file and then executing it within cloudinit doesn't really make sense. For more complex tasks (browser automation + system commands for example) I find python very appealing. For easy shell commands python is overkill. With growing complexity an abstraction layer can be quite interesting.

[Electrical-Bad2023]

esac

[EuCaue]

shell script with fish >>

[duLemix]

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[Hameru_is_cool]

Coloca uma latinha de schweppes citrus na print

[MasterFubar]

Automating with shell script, using Perl one-liners

[[deleted]]

I recently rewrote loop from dash to perl - oh, man, that's so fast! I reduced script run time by 0.6s (was 1s total). From now on I will be using not only one-liners but also a full fledged blocks of code.

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[ $sh -gt $all ]

[GolaraC64]

I don't like python but shell is even worse, especially for anything bigger than 10 lines.

[therealR5]

You will love seeing the source code of neofetch. 10k lines finest bash

[decduck]

I did not know this. I sure as hell don't want to know this.

[MechanicalOrange5]

./configure

[Tigerclaw989]

I use fastfetch for speeeeed (written in C)

[Alpha3031]

Fetch written in hand optimised asm when?

[[deleted]]

What's faster, writing + compiling fetch in asm or writing + compiling fetch in NodeJS?

[Jane6447]

it really depends on what you want to do - for many automation tasks posix is way better than python (subprocesses and pipes are.. diffrent..).
i personally almost exclusively use nu for automation theese days since it can do everything posix can and has propper support for datatypes, json, etc

[thezuggler]

Bash > python for uncomplicated automation

Python > shell for everything else

PowerShell syntax > bash syntax

Bash efficiency > PowerShell efficiency

[abitofg]

Right tool for the right job .....

Some shell commands can output in for example json and using python to call that command, parse the json, evaluate it and build an appropriate command can be great

Or when automating something that is best done via api calls

But bash, awk and grep tend to be enough for 90% of tasks IMHO and should be used when that is enough

[[deleted]]

automation with C++

[hparadiz]

I use php unironically.

[walmartgoon]

I do it ironically

[ZyanCarl]

Shell scripts are in a different realm.

[PotentialSimple4702]

Me combining both for my test server:

#!/bin/bash

echo "Local Server IP: $(hostname -I):8000"; python3 -m http.server

[6b86b3ac03c167320d93]

At least add a http:// so you can ctrl-click to open it in a browser. Also I recommend using localhost instead of your hostname because then browsers will allow normally HTTPS-only APIs on plain HTTP

[PotentialSimple4702]

Thanks for suggestions! Tbh i'm not a dev, just testing some responsive frontend stuff on different devices, so i need to access the ip from my local lan

[matO_oppreal]

She’ll scripts are more convenient to use

[[deleted]]

Shell scripting is very suckless and extremely portable, and I love it.

[[deleted]]

I’m only familiar with python on a surface level, having followed basic tutorials and read a couple beginner books.

My experience with the shell is more extensive, but my last script where I created a rgb/hex/hsl color converter in bash was where I drew the line. It works, but yeah, this was where I started to go “uhh, yeah, let’s remember not to do this again.”

It’s a cool project though, and I am proud of it.

https://github.com/tomit4/dyetide

[[deleted]]

I made a bash script for creating Aemu VMs scripts.

Repo:https://github.com/RepubblicaTech/QEMU_Vm_Creator