[Cialug] scripting

[David Champion]

David Stout wrote:
> I would like to know what most people use for a scripting language. I am talking about general scripting nothing fnacy. Like admin tasks that sort of thing.

Most people use Perl and shell scripts (bash, csh, ksh...). I would 
guess 90% of *nix scripts are done in one of these. If you've only done 
MS-DOS .bat scripts, it's really amazing what you can do with a unix 
shell script.

You can also use Python, Ruby, PHP, C/C++, or whatever language you're 
familiar with. RedHat / Mandrake use Python for a lot of the system scripts.

I've done a few scripts with PHP (you have to have the command-line 
version), which is handy since I'm familiar with the language and you 
have easy access to databases and such.

-dc