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. ;)
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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?
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--- On *Wed, 5/19/10, James Finstrom /<[email protected]>/*
wrote:
From: James Finstrom <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PERL vs. Shell scripting for server automation.
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]
</mc/[email protected]>> 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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