The Power of Shell Scripts
I love nice and clean solutions. But also, I love workarounds and tricky hacks which just make things work. In my world there is plenty of legacy code and urgent jobs which need to be done this minute. Sometimes it is obvious to see, that solution is one-time or temporary (although sometimes it is turns out, that it works for muuuch longer time 
) ), but time is pressing and there is only an option of no solution or dirty solution..
And here comes the power of shell scripts! Some old nasty application runs out of memory every second day? Then what about just restarting it every night? Some third party software results in PermGen errors on high inputs? What about passing data in chunks? There are plenty of things you can do with them! But never use it for long-term solutions!