my rule of thumb for when i need a bash script - if i have a playbook of commands then it's time.

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[salim]

funny how "there is no more permanent solution than a temporary working solution" also works in software where is it easy to modify

[tipeon]

Another trick: if I have a bunch of single commands that I use semi-regularly (often enough that it is a pain to remember/type, but not often enough to warrant an alias), I put them in a Makefile

[yonderhornet]

This seems like an absolute no brainer

[hellosammy]

But it looks cool to pound cool jargon into a terminal and hit enter. Makes me feel like I know what I’m doing.

[belesiu]

Document! Via scripts!! Couldn’t agree with you more!!! I’m now an electrical engineering manager (and a former embedded FW engineer), nothing irks me more than undocumented recipes (aka scripts) for our ECAD tools and release processes.

[DamianoZWA]

I used to say.... Good admin is a lazy admin... Life is easier when you have functions and scripts for many ocassions.😊

[Chronologist]

Bonus points if those 20 commands are rumm by scrolling 20 times 20 entries in the termimal.

[GeorgeAdams]

Not enough people use the script command.

[lucianolucky]

most often i need to see the output from the previous command and decide which command to run next. Do you think ansible playbooks would be a better option for repeated tasks on remote servers? Especially when you have a bunch of servers to manage, rsyncing scripts to servers makes things all over the place

[cliffwroberts]

I make ansible playbooks for this kind of thing.

[StayCHilL]

If its less the 5 lines i like storing in my documentation.
cmd1 && cmd2 && cmd3
But thats mostly so its easier to execute remotely

[rogerparrett]

You'd be surprised how many "admins" don't know how to write scripts other than just simply putting command after command in a file and chmod +x 'ing it.