Shell scripts are bug prone, unmaintainable, and inscrutible. But what in particular makes them bad? This is a good question without answers. I have four independent theories.1 [1 Naturally all probably contribute, but assigning blame, or resolving different kinds of errors to different causes, would be valuable. "All of the above" is usually true but without more details also usually useless.] Shell is a bad programming language Data structures beyond text are necessary Processes are a baroq...
