I’ve written a fair share of bash scripts over the years and because of that I prefer any other high level scripting language to do shell scripting. I use node

I’ve written a fair share of bash scripts over the years and because of that I prefer any other high level scripting language to do shell scripting. I use node a lot like this project but python or ruby are also good penknives for these kinds of tasks. Bash is esoteric, obscure and awful.