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Backing up data is one example. You can write a basic script that performs the backup for you. For another example, let's say you're monitoring the stock of a product (the Nintendo Switch 2, maybe?).

A program (binary, or executable) is a file on disk somewhere, in a recognized format. Common formats include ELF on Linux, ...

Of course, you can also call out to programs, and sometimes it is just easier to make a call to an awk or Python script to do the heavy lifting. But let’s stick with bash -isms for handling strings.

If you need a quick web server running and you don't want to mess with setting up apache or something similar, then Python can help. Python comes with a simple builtin HTTP server. With the help of ...