- Shell scripting for running commands and managing files
- Unix utilities for processing text
These happen to complement each other nicely. It's not that bash is better at manipulating text than Python, it's that Python makes it painful to invoke commands (like those Unix utilities) and pipe data between them (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17733865 ).
- Shell scripting for running commands and managing files
- Unix utilities for processing text
These happen to complement each other nicely. It's not that bash is better at manipulating text than Python, it's that Python makes it painful to invoke commands (like those Unix utilities) and pipe data between them (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17733865 ).