> Those would be quite different functions, then, unless you proposed to have
> Python interpret native shell metacharacters on its own too (e.g., set up
> pipes, do the indicated file redirections, interpolate envars, and fake
> whatever other shell gimmicks people may use).
What we need is a function which does all those things,
but uses some way of specifying them *other* than shell
metacharacters. E.g.
os.plumb(("sed", "-e", "s/dead/resting/", "parrots"),
("grep", "norwegian"), output = myfile))
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