bash and python pills

So you know bash sucks, but it's the best we have to do process orchestration and pipes and all that kind of stuff.

Here are a few lists of knowledge pills that are kind of related.

• You are writing bash, and there's clearly a list of things (patterns) you do over and over. Here's a list of some common things
• You have some shellscripts but some depend on linux/bsd programs and you'd like to make them pure bash. Or you're just the curious type that wants to know "what would this look in pure bash".
•  Until you realize you should start moving all your bash crap to something different. What about python?
• Python is great, but it's not without wtfs.