> You can’t really move away from bash, unless there would be alternative as widely available on different Unix systems as bash is. Lua can be built from sourc

> You can’t really move away from bash, unless there would be alternative as widely available on different Unix systems as bash is. Lua can be built from source in a few seconds on just about any system and can be used pretty easily as a bash replacement. You can even bundle the lua script in a bash script that idempotently installs lua and then calls the lua script embedded in heredoc.