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Bash is painful and awful, IMO. The last thing I want to do (if I were even capable of comprehending the man pages) is really learn it and internalize its awfulness (same with, say, Vim); I want to be able to do what I want to with some syntax quickly glued on from StackOverflow.

Actually, I don't want to do that either.

What I really want to do is use a Python script instead. :3

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But using Python is very painful as well for shell use-case. Do you really want to open files, subprocesses, and create fifo manually instead of typing "cmd1 | cmd2 > output"?

Then you have Xonsh, but in my opinion, switching between the two contexts, shell and python, at each part of a command was too difficult. I was totally lost even at writing very basic commands.

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