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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers what scripting language to use Post 77159 by google on Tuesday 5th of July 2005 09:05:38 AM
Old 07-05-2005
As you might have guessed, the answer to this question depends on what you need accomplished.

Perl is ubiquitous these days - plus it runs on a variety of platforms
Korn Shell is powerful
Python is good for prototyping and generating complicated install scripts for both windows and unix/linux
Awk/Sed pattern matching and text processing

There are plenty others...as I said, there is not right answer to this question
 

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