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by alexpetralia 3285 days ago
I learned bash primarily for practical reasons (ie. navigating in Linux, parsing files, searching for text) and nothing more. Definitely not from a DevOps or SysAdmin point of view as I'm sure fits the background of many commenters in this thread.

If your use case is pragmatic in nature, I would recommend my post on the topic: http://alexpetralia.com/posts/2017/6/26/learning-linux-bash-...