[tstrimple]

People who say stuff like this must not have worked on enough Linux environments. Bash scripts aren't fully portable, and there are absolutely differences in environments which prevent portability of bash scripts. Since using Nix, I've realized the number of bash scripts which are only superficially portable are drastically higher than the number which are actually portable. As one trivial example, how many bash scripts use the more portable shebang of `#!/usr/bin/env bash`? Extremely few. And every one which hard codes `#!/bin/bash` has created a less portable script most likely without ever having realized it. Guess they are all muppets though right?

[CuriouslyC]

If you standardize the Unix utils you use and the bash version you use, it's really not hard to avoid a lot of the issues you're talking about. To get all developers in an org working on compatible ubuntu-like systems, just mandate use of WSL on Windows and GNU unix commands on mac so everything is the same for everyone.

That being said, if you and your team just don't have a lot of bash/unix experience, that is probably a good argument for writing your utility scripts in whatever you can actually write without a ton of bugs.

Would you complain about node bugs if your org wasn't standardizing the node version people used and some people were still on node 12??