I review shell scripts from beginner ops people. I would not approve any of this stuff. Once you need this complexity in shell, you need other things you should be getting from the language's stdlib. So I'd ask them to switch to Python or Go.

Do not fall into the trap of big complex shell scripts.

zhouzhao · 20m ago

>Do not fall into the trap of big complex shell scripts

This so much.

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