[Discuss] Scripting languages (was Re: rsync v. cp in data migration)

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 05/27/2013 11:11 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> I'm not a programmer. Never was, probably never will be. I'm a sysadmin.
> Bourne is my go-to language for anything repetitive for two simple
> reasons: it's there, and it doesn't change. Every UNIX and Unixalike has
> Bourne shell. Every single one. And it works the same on all of them. A
> Bourne script written for Ultrix 3 works on Solaris 9 and RHEL 6 with
> maybe a slight tweak for different paths (SysV vs. BSD vs. LSB).
>
> No other scripting language in the world meets those criteria.
>
Agreed. But, there are some differences in some of the older versions. 
Ran into that when doing some scripting at the Digital multi-system lab 
where we had scripts for Bourne (Ultrix), Bourne (HP-UX) and Bourne Sun 
OS (before Solaris). But, modern versions of SH have a standard.

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