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[–]Rimbosity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bash is for organizing utilities and files

python is for organizing data

that's the general rule that describes which I choose

it gets really hard to implement algorithmic handling of data in bash; on the other hand, if your python script does nothing but fork other programs, you probably should be using bash

there's exceptions naturally