Re: Scripting/automation method/language

2022-01-07 Thread Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss
A lot depends on complexity. A few questions: 1) Is this easier to understand, or harder to understand as Bash 2) Is it more or less work to maintain as Bash versus a more general purpose language 3) What options exist for general purpose languages to accomplish the task Depending on answers to

Scripting/automation method/language

2022-01-07 Thread Seabass via PLUG-discuss
Hello Linux folk. I'm making some bash scripts, mostly for templating purposes. In the past, I've used bash scripts to make basic configs of systems. Eventually I went to ansible, but came across trouble pushing to some OSs, as they needed python installed to work with ansible, but was not