I actually stopped using bash for shell scripting and started using PHP, probably about two decades ago. It's not for everyone - I never got fully fluent in bas

I actually stopped using bash for shell scripting and started using PHP, probably about two decades ago. It's not for everyone - I never got fully fluent in bash, so find it a million times easier to write shell scripts in PHP, and can use a lot of the dev tools I would use in webdev.