Then this is good, but hopefully scope creep doesn't creep in. I'm not a software developer, but a scientist, and eventually like 5 shell scripts fill a direct

Then this is good, but hopefully scope creep doesn't creep in. I'm not a software developer, but a scientist, and eventually like 5 shell scripts fill a directory. Having them all be in one place sounds neater and easier to document and come back to a few months later without needing to either open up each individual file to read its own comments or to make a separate readme file, seems good for small projects.