Don't you loose the easy threading that's inherent in a pipeline of processes though? I love ruby but for throw away jobs I'd be more likely to do it on the co

Don't you loose the easy threading that's inherent in a pipeline of processes though? I love ruby but for throw away jobs I'd be more likely to do it on the command line than a ruby script simply because it would be quicker for me to write and run in a shell. Unless I'm wrong at the very least you wouldn't have to deal with the GIL.