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In what ways are scripting languages (especially bash) is used to manage large C++/C programming projects?
It will be helpful if someone can list some clever uses of scripts in their programming projects at automating certain tasks.
I personally used shell scripting to invoke my program multiple times for different inputs, for loading the necessary modules before I try to run my program, for automatic graph plotting with gnuplot etc. When I was working on huge clusters I also found a script very useful when I had to set/query some runtime settings to launch my tasks on the cluster. I always use GNU Make to build my programs, but if you have extremely small non-critical projects, you can use scripts to even build your code.
I am sure that there are a lot of other innovative ways to use bash scripts, but whatever I just said is from the perspective of an ordinary developer who does a lot of (almost) mundane stuff everyday. And bash scripts have made my life a lot easier, to say the least.