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There is, of course, a programming language designed to do shelly things as succinctly as a shell script: Perl.

Also Scsh[0].

I was amused to see DeepSeek using it recently, as I didn't realize it was installed on my machine (macos with brew).

Ruby is much, much prettier for similar purposes though, and so that's what I'll learn if I ever need to do this more frequently.