Amen. Writing bash scripts (I have been programming in Unix since 1985) is an unnatural, fragile, and error prone endeavor. If is more than 5 lines long, I use

Amen. Writing bash scripts (I have been programming in Unix since 1985) is an unnatural, fragile, and error prone endeavor. If is more than 5 lines long, I use Perl (which still far from ideal). When an article is almost solely about what not to do, that tells you something.