So you're running 'sh' scripts, right? none of that new-fangled bash stuff...

Oh, and be very careful of the commands your script invokes!

shell scripts have no guarantee of portability (often less than Python, which has a rich standard library available on all platforms).

Shell languages are great at doing interactive programming. Few non-shell languages can match the convenience, flexibility, and expressiveness in that domain. Of course, in any other domain (scripts) they are awful.

> Unfortunately the shell "language" sucks, but still...

Why do you say that? genuinely curious