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Being too good at bash is actually a bad thing, because you'll be tempted to reach for it for complex problems you need to solve instead of using a real languag

• devchix 5y ago
  ... and for the things within your reach, you will leave a legacy of unmaintainable bash scripts; the inheritors of which will loathe to modify or throw them out all together because of code inertia and their foggy understanding of it.
• sgarland 5y ago
  Knowledge of how to do something sub-optimally isn't bad. It's up to you to decide where the dividing line is when you should switch to a different language. Beyond that, I enjoy knowing how to do tricky things in the terminal simply for the sake of knowing it. Also, while it's not necessarily a guarantee that Python or Perl will be in a given environment, Bash will practically always exist. I will grant you if you find yourself in this predicament, you should probably be rethinking your build/deploy strategy altogether.