Oh my god, your first point. I had to pass arbitrary arguments through a couple layers of shell and I couldn't do it. Gave up and rewrote it all in Python, even

Oh my god, your first point. I had to pass arbitrary arguments through a couple layers of shell and I couldn't do it. Gave up and rewrote it all in Python, even though it's annoying in other ways, and I'm decent at shell scripting. It's a nightmare.