I did that for 10+ years with perl, but I guess that these days Ruby and Python would be equally valid choices. To be honest these days I use shell scripts, an

I did that for 10+ years with perl, but I guess that these days Ruby and Python would be equally valid choices. To be honest these days I use shell scripts, and if they get too large I'll replace with either golang or python. I don't love python, especially when dependencies are required, but it is portable and has a lot of things built-in that mean executing "standard binaries" isnt required so often.