i don't know bash

i don't like to read or write bash

why am i stuck updating bash scripts

Don't feel abashed. It may be you are just having too much bash. So you are bash-full. No reason to hide. It is also okay to bash bash.

Go for zsh

You are stuck upating bash scripts so you don’t have to use n bash commands instead of launching the script once. Therefore by using bash you are avoiding to use bash.

#technicallyTheTruth

I’m with @Demolishun. Write Python or Ruby scripts instead.

Then again, bash is absolutely the better tool for some things, and for most shell-related things.

Totally not going to argue about its awful syntax and flow and conventions, though. Yuck.

@Root sometimes I forget how terrible bash’s syntax is and think “it can’t possible be that bad”. Then I get bitch slapped by shit like this. Why the ‘fi’ and square brackets?!?!

@sjwsjwsjw what helps me a lot is https://github.com/koalaman/...

Posix shells scripts are horrible to write.

Sadly, sometimes i do not really have a choice. Shell scripts have their strengths and it is almost always available. My embedded Linux has neither Python, Perl, Ruby, not even bash, just sh from Busybox.