Shell scripting's best kept secret is babashka (https://babashka.org/ https://babashka.org/). - It's a flavor of Lisp (Clojure, specifically), a language whose

Shell scripting's best kept secret is babashka (https://babashka.org/ https://babashka.org/). - It's a flavor of Lisp (Clojure, specifically), a language whose flexibility makes it ideally suited for gluing together programs and working with data - Compare to alternative scripting shells, babashka is very pragmatic and 100% production ready today, as it's built on top of Java, GraalVM and Clojure - Even though it's Java under the hood, it's FAST (`time bb -e '(+ 1 1)' -> 0.014 ms) - Support for filesystem operations (e.g. globbing) is as good or better than Bash - Working with subprocesses is better than in bash, because there are fewer gotchas - Piping is easier in bash, but most of the time you _don't_ really want to use pipes. `cat /etc/fstab | grep /usr` should be a set of function calls, not subprocesses Give it a try, you won't regret it