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@jordan31@fosstodon.org Bourne-family shells like bash are definitely great for quickly banging out simple stuff but, compared to a modern scripting language like Python, they can get hairy very quickly.

(I'm not a fan of using `trap` to ensure temporary files get cleaned up no matter how the script exits, for example.)

You'll probably want mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ at some point.

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