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I feel that there are a lot of quick uses for scripting languages that you may only think of if you have the shell open at all times. I leave a terminal tab open with python running and have solved many problems with a few lines of code typed off the top of my head. What are some of your less obvious uses for the scripting language of your choice.
Most recently in my Windows centric world I have used it to rename large numbers of files, search/filter log files for a specific occurrence, perform network diagnostics, and a host of smaller things I can’t think of at the moment that some of my colleagues not having a UNIX background would never have thought of.