Totally agree. On a related note, I came across a similar thing just the other day for rubyists: https://github.com/thisredone/rb https://github.com/thisredone

Totally agree. On a related note, I came across a similar thing just the other day for rubyists: https://github.com/thisredone/rb https://github.com/thisredone/rb Probably not as fast as many of the individual unix tools it could replace, but does look like a great way to leverage one's knowledge of ruby.