I hear this argument occasionally and it’s very contextual. While it’s certainly possible to rewrite any given shell script in Python, Rust, or whatever language you prefer there are some things which are just clearer in Bash.
I wouldn’t want to write an entire application in Bash, but equally I wouldn’t want to write a script which does relatively simple file operations in Python. Bash is a language which has been honed over many decades for precisely that sort of thing, and so can communicate what’s happening far clearer than Python does in my view.
I wouldn’t want to write an entire application in Bash, but equally I wouldn’t want to write a script which does relatively simple file operations in Python. Bash is a language which has been honed over many decades for precisely that sort of thing, and so can communicate what’s happening far clearer than Python does in my view.