@miscbrains @DemonSixOne @vii I was on bash when I started to get real about scripting, just in time for people to start yelling at me for bashisms and UUOC.

There was some hilarious copypasta that I wish I could find, the guy was like "Shut the fuck up about me using cat and using backslashes to escape instead of quoting because I live in the moment under the cursor" or something like that.

UUOC is actually a symptom of cognition, same reason postfix calculators were always popular: your mind thinks "object, object, relation". So "I want this file" then "I want this transformation on the file" is a natural way to think. I refuse to stop cat'ing files into awk.