The Tcl programming language is what shell scripting should be, basically. It is not just a language with all the features you need, it has explicit Unix shell

The Tcl programming language is what shell scripting should be, basically. It is not just a language with all the features you need, it has explicit Unix shell alike scripting capabilities and strong DSL abilities. An example two-liner: set files [glob /etc/*.conf] foreach f $files {file lstat $f file_info; puts "$f: $file_info(size)"} /etc/asl.conf: 1051 /etc/autofs.conf: 1935 /etc/dnsextd.conf: 2378 ... and so forth ... Also there is an `exec` command that supports pipes, redirections, and so forth: set result [exec cat /etc/passwd | grep Directory] The pipe has no special meaning in Tcl, but because of its DSL capabilities you can do things like that. Exec is a DSL basically.