Nobody doubts that pipes and languages like awk are great for one liners, but I think that's a little besides the point of this post, which is advocating for things like the use of bash arrays:

``` array=( a b ) array+=(c) if [ ${#array[@]} -gt 0 ]; then rm -- "${array[@]}" fi ```

``` array = [a, b] array << c array.map { |i| `rm #{i}` } if array.length > 0 ```

There's also nobody stopping you from using text processing tools like awk and sed, or bash one liners in ruby/python either, but I think we should leave the logic and arrays for scripting languages, no?