There is, of course, a programming language designed to do shelly things as succinctly as a shell script: Perl.
Also Scsh[0].[0]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scsh" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scsh
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[0]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scsh" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scsh