Explore some of the more useful but perhaps more esoteric capabilities of the Bash shell with the blog post Ten More Things I Wish I'd Known About bash. It is a followup to the highly visible post by the same author on Ten Things I Wish I'd Known About bash. Modern shells like Bash, Ksh, and Zsh have over four decades of developent and refinement, making them powerful, flexlble, and fast user interfaces for efficient work — not just excellent scripting languages for automation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @05:37PM
As long as I get to write all the shell scripts myself, and have access to all necessary documentation and enough time for development, I don't see a problem.
Of course, being hell, it will probably be a big heap of existing, badly written scripts to modify, not enough time to even understand one of them, and no accessible documentation for anything.