Quoting and escaping are important, as they influence the way Bash acts upon your input. There are three recognized types: per-character escaping using a backslash, weak quoting with double-quotes, and strong quoting with single-quotes.
Pnut is a transpiler that allows users to write shell scripts in C, which is then compiled into a POSIX-compliant shell script. It aims to simplify shell scripting by leveraging the familiarity of C.