What language for system administration do you use ?

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed 25 Apr 2012

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Shell Script  <-> 55%851 votes
Perl  <-> 13%200 votes
Python  <-> 19%296 votes
C  <-> 6%95 votes
Other (Comment)  <-> 5%87 votes
Total 1530 votes

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by sneex (204.86.xx.xx) on Tue 8 May 2012 at 20:41
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Isn't Perl and Shell the same thing? ;)

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by Anonymous (72.51.xx.xx) on Thu 28 Jun 2012 at 16:10
Shell is usually BASH or Bourne Again Shell.

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by Anonymous (93.127.xx.xx) on Thu 24 May 2012 at 13:01
PHP

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by Anonymous (93.103.xx.xx) on Fri 25 May 2012 at 12:13
PHP isn't language for system administration...

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by Anonymous (83.250.xx.xx) on Sun 27 May 2012 at 02:13
Why not? You can do any system administration task in PHP just as well as perl or python. I prefer perl or shell though.

#!/usr/bin/php
<?
system("ls");
?>

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by Anonymous (80.113.xx.xx) on Fri 1 Jun 2012 at 13:54
I prefer Python. But for 'ls' I rather use Bash, but just for fun, here some Python:


#!/usr/bin/python

import os
print os.system('ls')

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by Anonymous (62.212.xx.xx) on Tue 29 May 2012 at 16:06
Try to archive and set compression level with PHP for example.
PHP has to many memory leak issues.
PHP has segmentation fault problem on a lot of functions.
PHP sucks.
Perl has the biggest package number for system administration tasks.
Perl is the faster script interpretor for regexp operations.

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by Anonymous (87.212.xx.xx) on Wed 6 Jun 2012 at 15:08
And how does your comparison looks like with Python?

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by Anonymous (80.113.xx.xx) on Mon 18 Jun 2012 at 10:33
Go to: strombergers com /python

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by Anonymous (213.89.xx.xx) on Tue 5 Jun 2012 at 15:29
Puppet

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by Anonymous (207.5.xx.xx) on Thu 7 Jun 2012 at 21:25
Chef... shall we fight to the death?

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by ajt (89.240.xx.xx) on Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 13:16
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It's not my poll, but I did enable it and I'm interested in the results.

I did expect Shell to dominate but never expected anyone to say PHP. I should have edited the poll before I posted it to add ruby as it's a decent scripting language but no body has suggested it.

I use Perl or shell. Simple stuff with shell anything fancy in Perl.

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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by Anonymous (71.178.xx.xx) on Mon 11 Jun 2012 at 17:28
Ruby & bash mostly, but Perl too, and I even try Haskell at times

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by Anonymous (208.127.xx.xx) on Sun 17 Jun 2012 at 05:33
TCL and learning LUA

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by Anonymous (50.98.xx.xx) on Mon 25 Jun 2012 at 17:45
A melange which suits the need and the moment, and yes sometimesoften that means PHP. Because it works, too, and I spend a lot of time thinking in php so it's faster to throw it down.

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by Anonymous (145.253.xx.xx) on Tue 26 Jun 2012 at 07:27
awk + [bd]ash - it's system administration, right?

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Re: What language for system administration do you use ?
Posted by Anonymous (57.250.xx.xx) on Tue 26 Jun 2012 at 15:17
Ruby also Puppet & Babushka (see babushka.me)

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