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We've used it for simple health ping scripts before in systems where bash is the only language guaranteed to be available and compiling a binary was overkill.

I've also used it to issue Redis and other text based protocol commands without having to have a large runtime or library.

But in both those scenarios the environment was pretty restrictive.




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