I disagree. I'm not saying that everyone should think the way I do, I guess realistically all I mean is that when I'm confronted with a parsing issue in this co

I disagree. I'm not saying that everyone should think the way I do, I guess realistically all I mean is that when I'm confronted with a parsing issue in this context I just write a shell script. Ok, this can be taken as reinventing, which I'm advocating against, but I see this as utilising the UNIX philosophy and by sticking to POSIX shell specifically (and using sed, awk, tr, et al) it is still a built-in and portable way to deal with this problem. Also I am not saying this because of some irrational submission to an old philosophy, I advocate this style of working because I find it easy, convenient and fast, and it works for me in the real world. But of course people have different ways of working and I respect that. This is just what works for me and how I see things. Definitely not meant as an attack against this project or different ways of working.