I've asked this question to myself before. I use the complexity of the task to determine the answer. If its a simple daisy chain of commands (ls, rsync, wget), then I stick with bash. If its more complicated, I use PERL or PHP.

Eric

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:16 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:

Well Shell looks like Chinese to me.  I bet I can learn it as I have learned a number of languages.  I think knowing what to do [with Linux] might be more difficult than learning a language.  I did some PERL scripting about 10 years ago.  Seems simple enough.

Since it is half a dozen of one or 6 of the other, I'm wondering which would give me more mileage since I am currently doing PHP?

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Keith Smith

--- On Wed, 5/19/10, James Finstrom <jfinstrom@rhinoequipment.com> wrote:

From: James Finstrom <jfinstrom@rhinoequipment.com>
Subject: Re: PERL vs. Shell scripting for server automation.

To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 6:11 PM


This is like asking bacon or gravy. It depends what flavor of fat you
are :). Do you know either language? Which are you more fluent in

On 5/19/10, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I was looking at some examples on writing a back up script and they are
> written in shell script.
>
> Now I'm wondering what would be better PERL or Shell scripting for doing
> stuff like writing a backup script that might stop MySql, make a copy
> (dump?) , tar it and maybe move the tarball or place it on another server?
>
> As you might have gathered from my last couple of questions I am not a sys
> admin.  I'm a programmer and am responsible for several servers, so I guess
> I need to break down and learn a few more skills.
>
> Thanks in advance for your insight, advice, and help!
>
> ------------------------
>
> Keith Smith
>
>
>

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