Joerg wrote:

Why make things complicated?

It isn't - it's fun

I do such stuff with spreadsheets.

When done, feeding a CLI tool with data from
the shell is faster and more pleasant (cooler)
than using a spreadsheet. It can then also be
combined with other such tools, tho I admit
that probably won't happen in this case (?).

A spreadsheet is of course a fine way to do it
as well.

That's what they were invented for.

Programming languages were also invented for
this kind of... computing

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