I never found bash scripting disagreeable. I have thousands of scripts for both work and my everyday computer usage. I keep a ~/bin folder in my path where I place useful scripts that I have written for my own use. One thing that keeps me using bash for this purpose over Python or Ruby (which I use for serious programming) is that I can take a command line invocation that I manually constructed and tested and put it in a script without modification.
Me too! I am a data engineer so whenever I have pipeline jobs running, I have a script that monitors them. When the jobs finish, an audio plays stating the job has finished and its status. Thats just one convenient script out of dozens.
Makes life much more easier when I can play video games or read books without having to check status every 20 mins.
Though I haven't created as many as you have. Would you mind sharing some of them??
Thousands is probably hyperbole, but there are many, many!
One that I find regular use for when copy+paste does not work because I am either connected to a terminal emulation, vm, or something of the like is typeitforme. It takes the contents of a text file and sends them through the keyboard buffer after a few second delay (that allows me time to switch focus to the window I want the typing done).
I currently have it as a entry in my ~/.bash_aliasas file.
alias typeitforme='sleep 3 && xdotool type --file '
This works in stock Ubuntu Linux. You can check out the xdotool documentation for ideas how to refine it to do more.
