Comment by wpm

What other language is it as easy, fast, and painless to work with file contents? I can toss data down and lift it back up with some <> symbols and a path, none of Python's "errrm, how would you like to open that file " handholding. And why the hell would I want to go learn TypeScript!?!?

Sometimes I feel like the people on HN repeating the trope "uhhh if you need ____ go learn a real language!" are just bad at writing shell scripts.