While I agree that Python seems more clumsy for shell-type scripting, Perl has most of the 'basic' OS functions scattered all over the place, not in a couple of

While I agree that Python seems more clumsy for shell-type scripting, Perl has most of the 'basic' OS functions scattered all over the place, not in a couple of comprehensive libraries. E.g.: File::Basename Cwd <= where abs_path resides, for some reason File::Path <= rmtree, etc File::Spec File::Spec::Functions ... etc ...