Cool stuff, very impressed! Bash is nice since it's available on many systems and is a slightly better superset of sh. However Bash is a large, ugly beast. The

Cool stuff, very impressed! Bash is nice since it's available on many systems and is a slightly better superset of sh. However Bash is a large, ugly beast. There are a million edge cases, inconsistencies, obscure options, counter-intuitive intricacies and minute differences between versions and other shells. There's already a ridiculous amount of completely unnecessary complexity to it. I wouldn't want to increase that surface any further. In practice, I try to keep stuff minimal, transparent and close to defaults. Usually that means -x and POSIX compliancy when possible.