Dealing with files and directories? Best option. Dealing with calling multiple other tools written in different languages and/or network calls, and combine, sto

Dealing with files and directories? Best option. Dealing with calling multiple other tools written in different languages and/or network calls, and combine, store and do some basic operations on the data? Best option. It's a job control language after all. The pipes and redirects, and the instant access to the file system is also very powerful. Sure it could/should be improved massively, but I'd say it's still the best tool for a significant amount of pretty common use cases, it doesn't just suck at everything.