> Or, is there something special that it has? *nix shell is an interactive, concatenative string language with transparent file system access and binary loadin

> Or, is there something special that it has? *nix shell is an interactive, concatenative string language with transparent file system access and binary loading capabilities. It's fairly unique among languages and very good at what it does. I would hate to have to write a python script or C program every time I want to rename 1000 files or repack an archive or execute a few programs in sequence or conjuction.