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This feels a bit like saying you can run as fast as Usain Bolt. Theoretically many things are possible, but I don't think I've ever seen a readable bash script beyond a trivial oneliner and I've seen a lot of bash in my life. Or to maybe explain from a different perspective, ask a room full of developers to write a bash if-else without looking at the docs and you'll probably come back with more different options than developers in the room. Ask the same for a language such as Python and you'll mostly get one thing.



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