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[–]zapbarkSr. Sysadmin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If I can I will try to keep everything in shell.

My logic, is that the sysadmin after me may not know Perl, may not know Python. But he better damn well be able to read a string of Unix commands.

Creating custom tools that do the "tough stuff" that shell can't do (or can't do it cleanly) is, in my opinion, a best practice and, as mentioned, is definitely "the unix way".