I find shell scripts confuses the heck out of me whenever they try to do something a little more complicated the piping.

Even this left me a but confused like how do the functions get the input parameters does the * in echo -e "$RED$*$NORMAL" have something to do with it?

There's just so many obscure ways of doing the same thing not to mention there's very few good places to teach you shell scripting and shell scripting best practices.

I'd rather just go with python. It's easier to read.