I'm glad someone mentioned debugging. Typically Bash scripts evolve into programs and one of the first things I always notice is how much effort I'm having to

I'm glad someone mentioned debugging. Typically Bash scripts evolve into programs and one of the first things I always notice is how much effort I'm having to put into debugging. Indeed, since I started working with [plumbum](http://plumbum.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ http://plumbum.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) I now typically reach for python in favour of bash even for small jobs.