I … I think I'd like to learn bash? Do you have any tipps on how to do that? Or should I rather learn python ("automate the boring stuff")?

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@jollysea depends on what you want to do with it. I like Bash for short snippets of code and because it gets really annoying once it gets larger than a few lines, so I'll be forced to use a real language for the complicated stuff. Python has a similar thing once you start getting into OOP stuff

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@noiob I want to do simple stuff like "transfer all files older than x from this folder into this folder via scp"

@jollysea that sounds doable in bash, yeah. I don't really have any specific source, I just search for whatever I need to do at the moment or look at man pages. To get all files older than x I think man find can help you

@jollysea basically what you wanna learn first is how pipes work bc that's how you do cool stuff in bash quickly

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