[flukus]

I just realized a simple shell script would make a passable imitation of JMeter, without the horrible UI and xml.

[hnlmorg]

A shell script wouldn't be enough (I've tried). However there are plenty of CLI based load testing tools, including one I've written myself. And if you need something more advanced then there is always Gatling, which is run via the command line and produces proper HTML reports and graphs plus is extended in code (eg in Scala) rather than GUI controls

[edp]

OT but if you want a nice alternative to jmeter, check out Gatling. Instead of XML, you can code your scenarios in scala.

edit : hnlmorg beat me to it :)