I'm tending towards Python for anything more than a single line shell script, because I find it easier to keep Python scripts tidy and well-structured. Not sayi

I'm tending towards Python for anything more than a single line shell script, because I find it easier to keep Python scripts tidy and well-structured. Not saying this is impossible, but I find the bash syntax for nontrivial operations hard to learn. This probably also applies if you replace bash with awk and python with perl.