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Anonymous2005-10-18 9:56
True, it is not often that a programmer needs to do fancy shell scripting. However when you need to and can do it, it can save a lot of time. I guess you are right, if you know perl theres no need to do much bash scripting (I still find it more straight to do certain stuff).
My point is that there is a need for scripting languages that let you interact with the operating system easily. Each time I find myself developing for windows I find it terribly painful to do certain tasks that would take 10 seconds in a unix environment. That definetly wastes my development time.