10-23-2013
Balajesuri,
Certainly, there are individuals, groups, and organizations - like you - that will work hard to write good clean reusable scripts. And if you are primarily a Python shop then it makes that easier. Most of the time, when I tell people, "Stop Writing Scripts" it's to stop writing shell scripts. There is always a place for higher-level language scripting like Python.
To comment about workflow and workflow automation. I've spent a good part of my career designing and writing automation systems. And that's my primary focus today. I would recommend reading my blog post.
Workflows allow you to work at a higher abstraction layer. It let's a user focus on what they really need to accomplish by providing a great deal of the heavy lifting. It removes the need to understand things like: how can I run this on 10 computers, what if I need elevated privs, should I be logging for auditing purposes. Maybe a visual will help:
![Image](https://www.xonasoftware.com/images/self-documenting-workflow.png)
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sieveshell
SIEVESHELL(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SIEVESHELL(1)
NAME
sieveshell - remotely manipulate sieve scripts
SYNOPSIS
sieveshell [--user=user] [--authname=authname] [--realm=realm] [--exec=script] server[:port]
sieveshell --help
DESCRIPTION
sieveshell allows users to manipulate their scripts on a remote server. It works via MANAGESIEVE, a work in progress.
The following commands are recognized:
list list scripts on server.
put <filename> upload script to server.
get <name> [<filename>] get script. if no filename display to stdout
delete <name> delete script.
activate <name> activate script.
deactivate deactivate all scripts.
OPTIONS
-u user, --user=user
The authorization name to request; by default, derived from the authentication credentials.
-a authname, --authname=authname
The user to use for authentication (defaults to current user).
-r realm, --realm=realm
The realm to attempt authentication in.
-e script, --exec=script
Instead of working interactively, run commands from script, and exit when done.
REFERENCES
[MANAGESIEVE] Martin, T.; "A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts", draft-ietf-managesieve-03.txt, Mirapoint, Inc.; May 2001, work
in progress.
AUTHOR
Tim Martin <tmartin@mirapoint.com>, and the rest of the Cyrus team <cyrus-bugs@andrew.cmu.edu>.
perl v5.10.0 2008-04-04 SIEVESHELL(1)