The Value of Checking on Your Custom Scripts Often
I love scripting. I mean, back in the 90s, after my brother taught me HTML 4, I took my knowledge further and started to program in PHP, but since leaving the field to become a Linux Systems Admin, my coding skills started to favor Python. But I rarely ever publish scripts of my own, and the reason for that is maintenance.
Now there are some times, depending on the complexity of your script, that you can get away without updating it for several years. I mean my original backup script was in use for over 5 years and didn’t need modifying, and even when I did modify it, it wasn’t because it had broken, but because I wanted to reorganize how the files were saved offsite. …
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