If you've reached for something with more structure than the string-soup that is bash, why would you then embrace the string-soup that is invoking subprocesses

If you've reached for something with more structure than the string-soup that is bash, why would you then embrace the string-soup that is invoking subprocesses with backticks? Involving an entirely separate parser just to split your args up feels like a footgun to me. Python's `sh` handles this rather nicely: http://sh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ http://sh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/