Except the shell is bad for those things, except pipes I guess.

I just hate doing things with files in the shell, all those stupid escaping rules, and god forbid you have files with spaces or quotes in the names, or leading or trailing spaces.

It's just spending time learning hacks to get around shell limitations instead of actually getting things done, and at the end it's an ugly mess.

Or maybe I'm just bad at it, but I don't think it's only that.