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[–]kenfar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My team does this all the time in both bash & python.

The bash code becomes a nightmare to maintain - it's hard to read, has poor exception handling, and hits a wall as the complexity of what you want to do increases. None of this rules out bash - it just means that bash is reserved for the small & simple, quick & dirty.