This is just plain a bad idea. Bash is the worst possible language. Yes, it can do it, but the syntax is awful. The problem of single quotes in double quotes in

This is just plain a bad idea. Bash is the worst possible language. Yes, it can do it, but the syntax is awful. The problem of single quotes in double quotes in escaped double quotes. I replaced a home grown, written by someone else, bash configuration management tool with Salt. The difference was huge. Configuration management tools give you built-in logging, state checking, return codes, template libraries, and access to very mature models to access things like the AWS api. I realize people don't like the steep learning curve, but there is a reason for it.