If you're working with a large amount of data in your Bash scripts, arrays will make your life a lot easier. Some people get intimidated by the syntax. But once learned, it will make your scripts more ...
Historically, operating systems generally come with some form of scripting language which admins and power users can use to create custom tools. Harking back to the home computer craze of the 1970s ...
Many computational endeavors benefit from some form of parallelization, and SLURM provides a way to do “embarrassingly parallel” processing relatively simply (read more about parallelization).