This (and a loooong history of similar posts) is the post that I was originally responding to: > Seriously, if you can avoid it, just don't write shell scripts

This (and a loooong history of similar posts) is the post that I was originally responding to: > Seriously, if you can avoid it, just don't write shell scripts at all. Use a real programming language instead. This may be slightly weaker than "never use shell" or "always use python" but it's pretty close to the former (you can almost always "avoid" using shell somehow), and people seem to believe that python is somehow particularly uniquely suited to use for shell tasks that I think there's some degree of the latter implied. So... I agree with you? I am saying that there is room for discussion around what constitutes a good use of shell script, and that there is a space in which that is true. I'm suggesting that a lot of people who believe otherwise may just mostly be writing things that aren't in that space, and I think this is actually a pretty charitable argument tbh.