Yeah, that's a good point. It's less about LOC than complexity (data structures, complicated string parsing, handling binary data, etc). And that's actually the

Yeah, that's a good point. It's less about LOC than complexity (data structures, complicated string parsing, handling binary data, etc). And that's actually the advice I follow myself. Some longish Bash scripts are very maintainable and reliable, because they're still quite regular and simple.