I think we are talking a bit past each other here. I don't contest the benefit of writing small helper utilities. > Regarding syntax, not sure why would you co

I think we are talking a bit past each other here. I don't contest the benefit of writing small helper utilities. > Regarding syntax, not sure why would you consider that awkward This is more true with Bash than Powershell. However, this is the same with programming languages in general. There are those who look at Julia's syntax and think it's absolutely beautiful and those who consider it to be absolutely bad and prefer Visual Basic.