Frankly, I find hard-coding #!/bin/bash sensible in a large corporate setting such as Google. It prevents PATH manipulation and they obviously have a uniform an

Frankly, I find hard-coding #!/bin/bash sensible in a large corporate setting such as Google. It prevents PATH manipulation and they obviously have a uniform and controlled environment. Bash arrays can be convenient, but at that level of complexity Python or Ruby are much easier to read and understand (and necessarily maintain).