Certainly not impossible but I don’t often have to deal with large amounts of files in circumstances where the performance hit matters to anyone. And while I kn

Certainly not impossible but I don’t often have to deal with large amounts of files in circumstances where the performance hit matters to anyone. And while I know sed, awk, etc are powerful, I don’t know them & I’d have to learn how to use them, whereas I do know Ruby & Python. At the very best this is an edge case where one would have reason to choose shell scripts over scripting languages.