With Python installed everywhere I often question the logic behind writing long or non-trivial shell scripts. It always seems so brittle since the output of a

With Python installed everywhere I often question the logic behind writing long or non-trivial shell scripts. It always seems so brittle since the output of a command line tool can change (unless it's frozen in some standard) and relies way too much on regex and assumptions about what the data returned will look like. I much prefer to keep bash around only for interactive commands and ad-hoc one-liners.