Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

[Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org>]

Nate Duehr wrote:
> Steve Lamb wrote:
> 
>>     Quick, take your one liner, have it traverse an entire directory tree
>> converting all the wavs (regardless of capitalization) to mp3s, oggs
>> and flac, sorting all 4 into their own directory trees.

> To make your point, you'd need to do all of the above in one line of
> Python code.

> What a fanboi...

> "Quick, write a one-liner while I take 20 minutes to write a real program!"

    Uh, no, fanboi.  I never said it had to remain a one liner.  In fact, that
was my point.  One liners rarely stay that way.  And when you venture past
your very narrow mindset you find the problems in shell.