Slowly but surely, I'm replacing half my job with bash scripts. Anything even remotely tedious or error prone, I find that the small investment of time I'm putting in pays off remarkably quickly.
This article? Amazing. My scripts are about to become even more useful and easy to use.
I'd recommend trying to move anything fairly complicated into a "real" language - you'll get a lot of libraries, more well-defined and familiar syntax and also won't have to deal with cases like "do I want double quotes here"
This article? Amazing. My scripts are about to become even more useful and easy to use.