Hmm, I admit that's not too bad. I still disagree with the ideology that any non-trivial script needs to be rewritten in Python. The shell is the standard way

Hmm, I admit that's not too bad. I still disagree with the ideology that any non-trivial script needs to be rewritten in Python. The shell is the standard way of interacting with a *nix system, and for me that's the major benefit of using shell for "system"-ish tasks. I already know how to make a symlink, a pipeline, a chmod, etc, so I don't need to learn a new syntax for that.