> Someone else will probably point out a better way. It is also only a couple of lines of Python. grep -i "hello" filename # ;) > I always can't help but noti

> Someone else will probably point out a better way. It is also only a couple of lines of Python. grep -i "hello" filename # ;) > I always can't help but notice the lack of expressivity. I mean it takes 1/2 page of code to read a text file and print all lines that say "hello" I think you hit the nail on the head there. I've used just about every build system known to man and we're currently using cake at work, which is uses c# as a scripting language. Everything is 10 times more verbose than the equivalent shell/makefile would be. Things like concatenating sql files are 30 lines instead of code instead of one liners.