I do a lot of things from the command line. But as soon as I have a few lines and I need to write a script I just switch to Perl(which I know better than Python

I do a lot of things from the command line. But as soon as I have a few lines and I need to write a script I just switch to Perl(which I know better than Python). It just seems easier. I still call unix commands but Perl seems better to glue them together.