[effie]

In bash simple things are simple to write, get and read. And you don't need to deal with imports to do them, it's out of the box. Execute any ex. file? Just write down its path. Don't want to pause the main program? Add & after that path. Write output to file? Just append > filename after the command. Regex matching? Just use if [[ string =~ pattern ]]; ... lots of useful stuff, few keystrokes away. Python can do these things and more, but there is often a lot of tiresome overhead with recalling library names, dealing with local namespaces, method parameter positions, type casts just doing the most elementary stuff. This high-level complexity is useful for big and monster-big collaboration projects, but is wonderful to avoid when possible. Shell makes that often possible and is fun to use as well.