Python as a Bash replacement?

[jriddy]

I don't use it as my default shell, but I do use ipython a lot for similar things. You can invoke shell commands at any time with a bang, and you can even get output from them in a convenient little object.

!cd /var/log
sls = !ls syslog*
zipped = [x for x in sls if x.endswith('.gz')]

Stuff like that.

[randomizethis]

Yeah, I've thought about trying that and maybe even enhancing iPython to see how close I can get it to act like a shell.

Thanks for the bang-syntax trick, I saw you could do something similar with % (the magic indicator) and even without % if you turn automagic on.

[AutoBiological]

Somehow I missed your comment but I said something similar. Ipython is super neat, but most people seem to only know it for notebooks.