... which relies on many battle-tested Unix utilities. Why is that such a bad thing? I'm not generally a big fan of shell scripts but this one looks particular

... which relies on many battle-tested Unix utilities. Why is that such a bad thing? I'm not generally a big fan of shell scripts but this one looks particularly readable and documented: https://github.com/kisslinux/kiss/blob/master/kiss https://github.com/kisslinux/kiss/blob/master/kiss