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Discussion on: Your bash scripts are rubbish, use another language

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Andrew Pazikas

As an Oracle Engineer for a large coporation 95% of the automation I write I use ksh, no python3 in RHEL 7 where I work and old legacy hosts dont even have bash so ksh works everywhere. So much of the automation my team writes is all ksh for a whole host of tasks and while that last 5% is a bit of Python I can't see it dynamic changing anytime soon as SHELL scripting is so imbedded into the way the team and the business functions.

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Tai Kedzierski

Once a technology is adopted it's hard to unstick it... That being said in your case it sounds like everybody gets the training required to write clean ksh? So long as they've learnt ksh fully and not "just the easy bits," then my argument remains the same: so long as there is impetus and requirement to learn the language properly, there's no (or much less of a) problem!