My comment was more about basic string/number ops implemented as cryptic incantations, not functions per se. I regularly write bash. Simple things like trimming, deleting suffix, removing quotes, taking a substring, etc always look like someone is cursing in the code. I can’t remember this afterthought gibberish no matter how many times I write it, so I have to maintain few pages of bash snippets in my obtf.

Be damned the day I decided to write a set of scripts in it rather than looking for a way to make typescript my daily driver, like it is now. Bash “code” “base” is one of the worst programming jokes.