The C shell comes close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_shell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_shell For a while I was running Perl as my shell, it bakes in mo

The C shell comes close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_shell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_shell For a while I was running Perl as my shell, it bakes in most common unix commands as top level functions and its easy to call ones that aren't built in using system calls. Perl is pretty nice for file manipulations out of the box if you know what you are doing.