Hi all;
I have just recently delved into the magical world of Bash scripting and
I long ago gave up bash scripting for other than simple scripts, even for sysadmin chores.
Most Linux distros, including our favorite Debian, come with Perl installed in the standard distro, and it’s a quick upgrade to add Raku as well (
https://Raku.org).
Both languages are great “glue” languages and are C-like as opposed to Python. Raku, in particular, has a much easier syntax than bash. And the payoff is learning a much more powerful language with a huge problem-solving domain
Best regards,
-Tom