Scripts are great for writing process specific glue-programs and point tools.
I learned Bash from the internet, but after a while I bought the O'Reilly book "Learning the bash shell", it was worth very penny and this accelerated my learning: don't waste time, buy a book. I also often find answers I need in the Bash Guide on Greg's Wiki bit: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide I have found Groovy quite fun to learn, esp since it can access the java libraries (argparse4j being one of my favourites). The biggest advantage of Groovy over Python is that it runs on the JVM, so it was just two downloads to get everything. Groovy automatically downloads the additional libraries it needs via imports and Grape, not need to get IT involved, no root access required. I still use Python 3 quite a bit, but only with the built-in libraries, since getting external libraries installed was hard for me on some legacy OSes. I still know enough Perl to fix old scripts, but I don't bother writing new scripts in it. Nowadays, for any problem that requires data structure manipulations (trees, lists), I start with Groovy (I have read part of the book "Programming Groovy 2" Venkat Subramaniam) . Last time I checked, Groovy performed really poorly with regular expressions, so when I have lots of them, I use Python instead (I have read O'Reilly Learning Python by Mark Lutz). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/31e43c13-4f29-4e30-ac20-4d8f5c2e9651%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
