Good comments so far.
Perl is a bit more powerful, meaning that you can do just about anything
with it. It's also widely used for many things, and is C-ish in its
syntax. So knowing perl is likely to give you more mileage personally.
OTOH, bash is a bit simpler. When I've looked at doing the same thing in
bash vs perl, the bash scripts tend to be a bit shorter and simpler (no
files to open, etc). There is quite a lot you can do with bash once you
learn what it's capable of.
Given that your application is something that is done for the most part
at the command line, I expect in this case that bash would be more
suitable. I don't think that perl would buy you much of anything, and
bash would probably be a little less coding.
That's just my opinion though. ;)
--
-Eric 'shubes'
keith smith 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?
>
> ------------------------
> 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
> </mc/compose?to=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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