Strengths of Shell Scripting compared to Python [closed]

Answer 1

The shell makes common and simple actions really simple, at the expense of making more complex things much much more complex.

Typically, a small shell script will be shorter and simpler than the corresponding python program, but the python program will tend to gracefully accept modifications, whereas the shell script will tend to get less and less maintainable as code is added.

This has the consequence that for optimal day-to-day productivity you need shell-scripting, but you should use it mostly for throwaway scripts, and use python everywhere else.