While that's certainly true for people trying to do very complex things in "pure" shell, when the tools you're using are possibly buggy, it's not very useful. S

While that's certainly true for people trying to do very complex things in "pure" shell, when the tools you're using are possibly buggy, it's not very useful. Sometimes you have to debug and figure out where the problem is occurring, an then you can do the much simpler work of replacing one part rather than writing a bespoke program to replace all the boring functionality obfuscated away by shell and the working programs.