You asked about: > a script that counts the number of lines in files versioned by git I'm saying that is not a realistic production program that most of us wo

You asked about: > a script that counts the number of lines in files versioned by git I'm saying that is not a realistic production program that most of us would need. If you want it as a personal utility to use in your own shell, absolutely you can use bash. I'm responding to the idea that such a trivial script would have long term use in production.