Bash, the good, bad and ugly

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Bash is the language nobody chooses and everybody uses. It is the duct tape and baling wire holding the internet together: the install scripts, the CI pipelines, the cron jobs, the “quick” one-liner that has been running in production for nine years. You do not set out to write Bash; you reach for it because it is already there, on every server you will ever touch, and before you know it you have a 400-line script with feelings. In keeping with our series on programming languages, here is Bash in three acts.

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Bash, the good, bad and ugly