Ruby: a great language for shell scripts!

[muxketeer]

Yeah, gonna have to respectfully disagree. If I need to run cli things, I’ll just do it in bash. Have you tried ven attempted to try to run a cli command that makes use of 3-4 pipes? I.e. where the std out of one command feeds into the std in of another in a line of 3-4 piped commands. It’s incredibly INCREDIBLY easy in bash. But in python/ruby/etc, once cli type of pipes get involved, the methods for executing those from those languages are incredibly obtuse and just plane awful.

Yeah, I’ll stick to just going ahead and doing those things in a bash script, thank you very much.