Or just...not deal with any of that, and literally bash my way through it. I hated the bash learning curve because it's so zany compared to "sane" langs, but on

Or just...not deal with any of that, and literally bash my way through it. I hated the bash learning curve because it's so zany compared to "sane" langs, but once you hit a point in comfort, it's "muck around with syntax for a few minutes, applying to a test case of a few examples, dial it in, and let it rip on a few GBs of data and go work on other things". stringly typed pipes go brrrr XD. Composing unix utilities is horrific and beautiful all at once. Shellcheck helps a ton. Recently started getting into Xonsh cause it still makes piping programs super easy, while being still fairly easy to provision. Really wish there were a (stable) go-based scripting language and shell. There's tengo and some other things, but not primetime ready.