There is a reason shells and shell scripts exist. Reinventing the basic shell functionality seems pretty dull and better spent staring at a wall to decompress.

There is a reason shells and shell scripts exist. Reinventing the basic shell functionality seems pretty dull and better spent staring at a wall to decompress. I always start with a simple shell script which does most of the work as simple as possible, even simpler is using `make` then introducing shell scripts when needed.