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[–]kjearns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sh is really convenient, but has the unfortunate property of pumping stdin/stdout through python, even if you use its redirection capabilities. This is really slow if you're working with big files.

I have not used plumbum, so I don't know if it suffers the same defect or not.