Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 14th Sep 2007 23:08 UTC
As a system administrator, you run across numerous challenges and problems. Managing users, disk space, processes, devices, and backups can cause many system administrators to lose their hair, good humor, or sanity. Shell scripts can help, but they often have frustrating limitations. This is where a full-featured scripting language, such as Python, can turn a tedious task into an easy one. Python is a scripting language that looks like it was made for system administrators.
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"Seriously, how many times per year do you use a PERL one-liner from the command line? 4? Maybe 5 times?"
And the fact that 99.9% of perl one-liners result from people not knowing how to use "sed" and "grep".