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Is there any good alternative to bash for stringing together multiple commands with pipes and redirections? "Real" programming languages usually have painful-t

Is there any good alternative to bash for stringing together multiple commands with pipes and redirections? "Real" programming languages usually have painful-to-use APIs for calling commmands, redirecting output, piping one command to another, etc.

HdS84 4y ago
Powershell core. It's actually usable and allows to use .net tools if you need to break out the big guns. Main drawback is the stupid channel thing, but that's manageable.
draegtun 4y ago
Tcl would be a good choice here - https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/Tcl26.html https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/Tcl26.html