Sunday, February 27, 2011

Shell scripting advantages and disadvantages

Advantages:

  1. To automate the frequently performed operations
  2. To run sequence of commands as a single command
  3. Easy to use
  4. Portable (It can be executed in any Unix-like operating systems without any modifications)


Disadvantages:

  1. Slow execution speed compared to any programming languages
  2. A new process launched for almost every shell command executed

2 comments:

  1. This is good to know about the technology.

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