[anthk]

>If you want a traditional Unix-like shell that is mostly sensible in the places where Bash is not, check out

PERL. Sh, awk, sed and mini-C all at once.

[nerdponx]

I tried to like Perl. I really really did. `while (<>)` and regex literals are amazing. Everything else is kind of rough for me, especially the way arrays and hash tables work, and I much prefer Zsh, AWK, or Python for the same niche.