I used to do that with a help of Fabric/Invoke, and it was a pleasant experience overall, but sometimes required too much of verbosity. Then I discovered Plumbu

I used to do that with a help of Fabric/Invoke, and it was a pleasant experience overall, but sometimes required too much of verbosity. Then I discovered Plumbum (https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) with its concept of combinators, that I liked a lot more. Eventually it motivated me to switch the language for shell scripting for the second time, and nowadays I recommend Haskell's Turtle (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle-1.5.16/docs/Turtle-Tutorial.html#g:2 https://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle-1.5.16/docs/Turtl...) to anyone who is interested in safer shell scripting and still likes a concise and terse syntax (and it's blazingly fast too).