[plainnoodles]

My main qualms with bash as a scripting language are that its syntax is not only kind of bonkers (no judgement, I know it's an old tool) but also just crazily unsafe. I link to a few high-profile things whenever people ask me why my mantra is "the time to switch your script from bash to python is when you want to delete things".

>rm -rf /usr /lib/nvidia-current/xorg/xorg

https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...

>rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*

https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

It's just too easy to shoot your foot.

[shubhamjain]

There are couple of flags you can use to mitigate the safety risks. `set -u`, for instance, will thrown an error if an unbound variable is used. I always start my scripts with

> set -euo pipefail

Here's a detail explaination of all the switches: https://gist.github.com/mohanpedala/1e2ff5661761d3abd0385e82....

I do agree though, it's not the best tool. But combining CLI utilities tends to be fast.