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For writing scripts for process automation in Linux platform, which scripting language will be better, shell script, Perl, Python, or anything else? I am new to all of them. I am just thinking to which one to go for.
The answer is: Whatever best fits the job!
My rule of thumb;
Bash – for a short script that might need a for loop to do something repetitively.
Perl – anything to do with some kind of text processing or file processing, especially if it’s a one off. Just do a dirty nasty perl script and be done with it
Python – If it’s something you might want to do again or something very like it. Then at least you have a chance of being able to reuse the script.