Technically this will work on any shell not just bash but good luck! Shell scripting is rather fun once you get the hang of it. Though if I'm honest, if I get a

Technically this will work on any shell not just bash but good luck! Shell scripting is rather fun once you get the hang of it. Though if I'm honest, if I get a shell script about 30+ lines I tend to back up and break out ruby/perl/python/anything but shell. Think of it as a succinct glue language and you'll do fine. In the meantime feel free to use this python thing, its rather fun to be honest. Just wanted to demonstrate the unix-y way of doing it.