If you don't standardize on a sane shell then you shouldn't use the unix shell, agreed. Total disagreement on security fitness of high level languages -vs- a shell script.
Shell scripts require more direct systems knowledge than languages with an abstracted approach to _any_ system. As a rule of thumb if I am using python to drive (popen) system binaries I don't write in python and if I…
If you don't standardize on a sane shell then you shouldn't use the unix shell, agreed. Total disagreement on security fitness of high level languages -vs- a shell script.
Shell scripts require more direct systems knowledge than languages with an abstracted approach to _any_ system. As a rule of thumb if I am using python to drive (popen) system binaries I don't write in python and if I…