Planning on supporting more / enhancing functionality? I love BASH and lightweight stuff like this....
I love bash as an interactive shell.
Coding in it...no thanks. I've written (and later maintained) stuff that's ~30K lines of bash - once had an assignment that "had to" be written using only shell because that's all the team knew and the project grew ridiculously complex. At least they let me use function libraries.
Beyond short scripts, bash is painful. The quoting alone is a headache and trying to do anything performant gets you into a lot of "return via global variable" hacks because function returns are godawful slow. I think I know every single one of bash's obscure features...yes, you can do associative arrays, substring pattern replacement, file descriptors, coroutines, print execution frames for debug, etc. in bash but...why would you want to?
perl or python is so much more pleasant to code in. perl is a Linux standard as of the last LSB so there's really no excuse, and the code is usually much faster than bash because you're not constantly spawning processes.
With bash, I run into limitations and end up using a lot of sed, awk, sqlite command line, etc. which makes the projects silly. I cut my teeth on ksh88 so in comparison, bash is a swiss army knife, but still...if it's complicated, I reach for perl or python.
But hey, more power to anyone who writes code and enjoys it! Hell, I'd celebrate someone who writes in SNOBOL just for the geeky joy of it.
For bash freaks, this is a nice resource:
http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/doku.php
Another really good book on shell scripting that will open your eyes to how many things you can do with bash (though really, use perl or python) is Chris FA Johnson's Shell Scripting Recipes. He wrote some big things in bash (e.g., menu-driving point of sale systems using only termcap) and is one of the great bash freaks of the world.
