I tend to start writing things in bash (piping into things like grep, tac, sed, etc However if I’m not careful they get painfully complex and I tend to regret

I tend to start writing things in bash (piping into things like grep, tac, sed, etc However if I’m not careful they get painfully complex and I tend to regret not writing it in perk. As such I now switch to using Perl when I get to the function stage, or anything other than the most simple bash arithmetic.