This is a wonderful idea and an upstanding social service, in the same vein of giving heroin addicts access to free clean needles, pure heroin, and a safe place to shoot up.
There is no perfect solution -- in the ideal world, everyone would use safe healthy programming languages, and nobody would be addicted to shell scripting.
But in the real world, many people still choose to use shell scripting as a quick and easy short term solution to their problems.
Like the unhealthy temptation to use regexps for parsing html, shell scripting just causes more problems, which snowball out of control until you have the dire situation we're in today, with a whole generation of urban hipsters who learned cargo-cult cut-n-paste shell scripting by typing "more ./configure".
So it's much better to treat shell scripting as a health problem rather than a criminal problem.
My only suggestion is that you should sponsor links to "recovery programs," where people can learn to solve their problems with safe healthy programming languages instead of shell scripts. For the popular rube-goldbergesque shell incantations, you could show how to accomplish the same thing more comprehensibly in Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Lisp, Forth, Mathematica, Quartz Composer, etc. ;)
There is no perfect solution -- in the ideal world, everyone would use safe healthy programming languages, and nobody would be addicted to shell scripting.
But in the real world, many people still choose to use shell scripting as a quick and easy short term solution to their problems.
Like the unhealthy temptation to use regexps for parsing html, shell scripting just causes more problems, which snowball out of control until you have the dire situation we're in today, with a whole generation of urban hipsters who learned cargo-cult cut-n-paste shell scripting by typing "more ./configure".
So it's much better to treat shell scripting as a health problem rather than a criminal problem.
My only suggestion is that you should sponsor links to "recovery programs," where people can learn to solve their problems with safe healthy programming languages instead of shell scripts. For the popular rube-goldbergesque shell incantations, you could show how to accomplish the same thing more comprehensibly in Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Lisp, Forth, Mathematica, Quartz Composer, etc. ;)