> Can you do that easily in Python? I'm not arguing for Python over bash, I'm asking about the value of zsh as opposed to bash or python. So why couldn't one d

> Can you do that easily in Python? I'm not arguing for Python over bash, I'm asking about the value of zsh as opposed to bash or python. So why couldn't one do what you describe in bash? The answer probably is you very well could. So why use zsh for scripting?