Because I can do stuff like &quot;replace a token in a file with the entire contents of another file&quot; without fucking around trying to remember how to get echo to output content without a newline. Or trying to figure out how to get sed to do replacements with the contents of a file that might include sed&#x27;s delimiter. Or researching this nonsense for 3 hours before finally just writing a touch of python to do what I needed, since the awk solution that I found and hacked at myself would only work if the included file was a single line.<p>Or trying to figure out how to count occurrences of characters in a file. Be careful, if grep finds zero instances, it returns a non-zero exit code, and if you have pipefail on, your script stops executing.<p>I love linux. I think the bash fanboys have Stockholm syndrome or are just completely confused by PowerShell. It&#x27;s verbose, but it&#x27;s a hell of a lot more discoverable and self-explanatory than bash has ever been for me. And I&#x27;ve been using bash for 5x as long.