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For shell scripts that are longer then a handful lines, python is the better alternative IMHO, especially if the scripts need to work across Windows, Linux and macOS.

Windows has some nice tricks to connect the UI to the cmdline. For instance you can type "cmd" or "powershell" in the breadcrumbs-bar of an Explorer window, and it opens a terminal at that filesystem location (and the other way around, "start ." on the command line opens an Explorer window in the current directory.

Historically, pure command line workflows are somewhat rare on Windows though.



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