Take a look at marcel: https://marceltheshell.org https://marceltheshell.org. It is also a shell that pipes objects, and is based on Python, but it sounds like

Take a look at marcel: https://marceltheshell.org https://marceltheshell.org. It is also a shell that pipes objects, and is based on Python, but it sounds like scripting will be more to your taste. There is a marcel.api module that allows you to do shell-like commands neatly integrated into python code, e.g. from marcel.api import * for file, size in (ls('marcel', 'test', file=True, recursive=True) | map(lambda f: (f.path, f.size))): print(f'{file}: {size}')