And I did cringe, and then I thought it looked kinda fun. It would literally never have occurred to me in a million years to try to start a shell script half wa

And I did cringe, and then I thought it looked kinda fun. It would literally never have occurred to me in a million years to try to start a shell script half way though - so trapped am I in the paradigm of the familiar. As for the script that takes several days and often breaks half way through... sounds like what Makefiles are for to me.