Inevitably when shell programming is mentioned, particularly bash, I hear quite a few devs/programmers talk about how "shell is bad and you shouldn't use it" ma

Inevitably when shell programming is mentioned, particularly bash, I hear quite a few devs/programmers talk about how "shell is bad and you shouldn't use it" maybe with an added "for anything not a one-off or over 20 lines"... I completely disagree. As the sysadmin who has been the guy actually managing devs/programmers messes in prod, shell is the one thing that just works, is easily readable, is easily documented, is fairly easy to write, and generally keeps me from pulling my hair out or become violent with the devs. Take it from the guy who actually has to wrangle all your strange python/perl/go/node... bullshit, shell is something you shouldn't be bashing.