On: Bash Scripting: Why didn't I start this earlier?

[danellis]

It's not really about LoC, it's about what you're trying to do. If what you're doing is, essentially, job control, then Bash is still easier than Python. But not for much else, and Python is very widely available these days.

[btilly → danellis]

My experience is that job control in Perl and Ruby is almost as easy as bash, plus you have a real programming environment to fall back on.

My experiences with job control in Python were admittedly not quite as pleasant.