[npongratz]

I've found shell scripting to be superior to other programming languages when the job calls for performing some combination of the following:

1) calling lots of commands

2) using lots of pipelines

3) handling exit codes from 1 and 2 for error handling and conditional execution control

4) doing job control for processes and process groups (backgrounding, pausing, foregrounding, sending signals, etc.)

[jasonpeacock]

Have you looked at Plumbumm for Python? It handles everything you just mentioned:

https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

There's no reason not to use Python to achieve the same thing, and you get all the benefits of using Python instead of Bash.

I'm sure other languages have similar libraries.