The temptation of writing shell scripts, illustrated

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Python Poetry

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the xonsh shell

Not sure if someone mentioned it already, but for such use cases Xonsh[1] is amazing. It allows you to use shell stuff in a python script. Basically it allows you to use the best of both worlds, i. e. You can use python for the logic flow while retaining all your quick shell oneliners when neede. And it makes this interaction of python and shell super convenient, i. e. Run your oneliner but process its output with python. Much faster than coding everything in python or in shell. [1]: https://xon.sh/.

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Crystal (programming language)

And if you're conflicted between thinking both they and "but go is nice and static and free of runtime", you can look at https://crystal-lang.org/ Ruby syntax with static compilation for your tools.

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