While I would agree that ad-hoc bash pipelines are very elegant, actual long-form scripts that run safely turn into horrificaly ugly sludgy messes. As poor as

While I would agree that ad-hoc bash pipelines are very elegant, actual long-form scripts that run safely turn into horrificaly ugly sludgy messes. As poor as Powershell's verbosity is for an interactive shell, it's pretty reasonable when writing scripts. Bash + Perl/Python is certainly a more standard/sane combination on Unix, but not really a fair comparison at that point. :)