I think it's somewhat passable with line-based tools, i.e. you could easily use sed to match a range [1]. I think that it's far more important that it is human

I think it's somewhat passable with line-based tools, i.e. you could easily use sed to match a range [1]. I think that it's far more important that it is human readable, if it becomes too tricky to edit manually, then just go with a database. [1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/236754 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/236754