That’s fair. I wrote a script at work recently for zsh that relied on some of its niceties, like glob qualifiers. The reason for using zsh was we only use Macs,

That’s fair. I wrote a script at work recently for zsh that relied on some of its niceties, like glob qualifiers. The reason for using zsh was we only use Macs, so it was reasonable to assume everyone would have a decently modern version of zsh available. It definitely looks foreign, but then, so does parameter substitution in bash or zsh. There are shell scripts, and then there are those that make you break out the man pages to figure out what they’re doing.