Once I get a script to a point of defining functions or anything but the simplest if or for loop, I rewrite in a proper language (Perl, Python, even PHP) and bu

Once I get a script to a point of defining functions or anything but the simplest if or for loop, I rewrite in a proper language (Perl, Python, even PHP) and bundle it as a deb onto our internal repo. Too many times I didn’t move from bash until too late. I still write bash, I’ve got one which runs up a 20 line ffmpeg command with a couple of variables, that’s not a problem. On the other hand I changed the complexity of a file analysis tool from grep/sort/uniq/sed to Perl a couple of weeks ago before it became too large.