[jfb]

I"m curious about why it's written in sh, given that it's OS X only and OS X includes by default many languages significantly less crappy than Borne Shell.

[davej]

Presumably because most of the commands are just shortcuts for other shell commands. Probably the right tool for the job in this case.

[jfb]

Yeah, fair enough. Not everybody hates the shell as much as I do.

[eddieh]

Someone would ask why not write it in sh, if it was written in Python, Ruby, Perl, or Tcl. I prefer stuff like this in sh.

[pfranz]

I like to challenge myself to write little things like this as shell-scripts, too. But I am surprised they didn't at least choose use Bash instead of Bourne shell.