[bluedino]

I find a lot of times someone extends or duplicates a bash script and soon gets over their head in complexity, or doesn’t realize how much easier a Ruby/Python/whatever script would be to change, mostly because it’s so much more readable.

Bash has all kinds of pitfalls and things like checking if a file exists vs if it’s larger than 0 bytes.

Then you get people who instead use php to do scripts. Ugh.