As you can probably guess from my username, I am among the last people who would disagree on the usefulness of common shell utils, and the benefit of knowing th

As you can probably guess from my username, I am among the last people who would disagree on the usefulness of common shell utils, and the benefit of knowing them. But I still hold that one should rewrite into a proper programming language, as soon as a shell script becomes too large, and that point is usually around the 100 LOC mark. Yes, I can do amazing things just with sh/bash and the coreutils. But a small Go program or python script, is just alot more readable, at least imho, because they impose STRUCTURE, which the shell lacks on purpose: It's a CLI first, and a programming language second. I can read through several hundred lines of Go in one sitting. When asked with analyzing some old bash script, and `wc -l` tells me something along the lines of 400+, I grab the coffee machine and bring it to my desk.