Interesting that a lot of the (general, not specifically here) commentary is "don't use bash, use python" which I find quite clunky, noisy, and boilerplatey to

Interesting that a lot of the (general, not specifically here) commentary is "don't use bash, use python" which I find quite clunky, noisy, and boilerplatey to do the same thing as a shell script. Kinda Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines†. Ruby's https://github.com/ruby/shell https://github.com/ruby/shell (which used to be bundled in Ruby itself) doesn't get much mention but is much more clear and useful to me. # system commands are not defined by default, only builtins, for safety Shell.def_system_command 'ls' Shell.def_system_command 'grep' Shell.def_system_command 'jq' Shell.new.transact do # simple redirs just work ls | grep('test') > 'some/file' ls | grep('other') | tee('foo') >> 'some/file' # pops at the end of the block cd 'some/dir' do # nested redir for demo (cat < 'foo.json') | jq '.[] | { bar: .bar }' end end † http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.html http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.htm...