It's a matter of complexity. If you're munging files and using regexps, shell is...

mercurial on March 11, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough

It's a matter of complexity. If you're munging files and using regexps, shell is fine, and quicker than Python. If you're starting to think "I need a set" or "I need real error handling", it's about the time I move to Python or Perl.