that's totally fair. there are plenty of cases where a shell script will just do. however, we found that for runbook-like documentation it's elegant to interlac

that's totally fair. there are plenty of cases where a shell script will just do. however, we found that for runbook-like documentation it's elegant to interlace narrative and commands per step to incrementally work through the steps to completion. the IDE could, for an instance, set you up with configuration and credentials required and provide a richer way to display intermediate results. scripts always work well until you share them. in a Bring-Your-Own-Device world it's easier said than done. however, totally depends on the situation and in a lot of cases a script file will work just fine. hope this sheds some light on it, not trying to convince you that an IDE is required.