[douche]

Why are we still running bash scripts? The only thing worse might be DOS batch files.

It's not like python isn't available on every major linux distro. It's a little harder to ensure it's on windows, but when Steam is installing every point release of the Visual C++ runtime that has ever existed on my system, why not bundle python in there too?

[woodman]

> Why are we still running bash scripts?

Because admins gotta admin. Also, adding python to a software suite just to work on the file system... gross.

[mst]

And even if it isn't, modern perl would do as well as python for this case, with no language wars required.

[douche]

Exactly. There are better options, that have more sane string and path handling. Much as I grumble about using Powershell on Windows, at least you've got the .Net framework underneath you that you can drop into relatively easily