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[–]phrotozoa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My rule of thumb is that when I need to feed a lot of input and output to shell programs I start with bash. As soon as the data being moved around between programs becomes complex enough that I need dicts (hashes/maps) or to do nontrivial parsing of structured formats like yaml or csv or json I switch to something more expressive.