[mhink]

IMO, copy-and-pasting bash commands is an organizational smell to begin with, but I don't think this particular use case is a reason not to use one shell over another. If you do have a snippet of bash to run, it's easy enough to toss it in a file (with a shebang) and run it as a shell script. And as a bonus, it's reusable and you can add comments/notes for when you have to run it again.

[jonfw]

> IMO, copy-and-pasting bash commands is an organizational smell to begin with

The people who develop the automation have to start somewhere :). If you're standing up a test environment or a PoC, writing down commands get's you 80% of the way to reproducing your results

[omginternets]

I think the bigger issue is with programs (e.g. nvm) that are either implemented as collections of shell scripts, or function by dynamically generating shell commands.