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Comment by qalmakka | Hacker News Reader

When my shell scripts get too large, I usually switch to Perl. Still best in class at handling text processing with a few shell commands here and there.

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I'm doing that with Ruby, and tgrought the years, it became also true for scripts that are fetching data, iterating over JSON objects, etc.

What makes Ruby great for this is you can specify dependencies inline

  require 'bundler/inline'

  gemfile do
    source 'https://rubygems.org' 
    gem 'json', require: false
    gem 'nap', require: 'rest'
    gem 'cocoapods', '~> 0.34.1'
  end

I do the same, in Python. I do my best to keep it zero-dependency to maximise portability.

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