Yeah, perl borrows backticks from bash[3], so it's giving you syntax to do it directly, and it's long had strong support for opening a process using a very intu

Yeah, perl borrows backticks from bash[3], so it's giving you syntax to do it directly, and it's long had strong support for opening a process using a very intuitive syntax. Python's subprocess module works quite well, but gets extremely verbose[4] as you try to do anything more complex than "run a command and get the output" and has some nasty gotchas[2]. I forget the invoke syntax, but doit[1] is basically a make replacement so calling the shell is pretty easy: def task_something(): return {'actions': ['ls foo/', 'rm -r foo']} And you can use outputs from one task as inputs for another, it tracks what's been done, etc. [1]: https://pydoit.org/ https://pydoit.org/ [2]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen.stderr https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#subprocess... [3]: https://perldoc.perl.org/5.30.0/perlop.html#qx%2f_STRING_%2f https://perldoc.perl.org/5.30.0/perlop.html#qx%2f_STRING_%2f [4]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#popen-constructor https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#popen-cons...