[ftaghn]

> I had the misfortune of having to maintain an 18'000 line bash 3 script

My hats off to you, I do not think I have the fortitude to stomach.. this.

> run it with busybox with the "exec prefers applets" option

> edit: it's actually the "run 'nofork' applets directly" option. Can give quite a speed boost compared to bash if you have to call "external" utilities like grep/head/etc.

Nifty trick, I had no idea about that, thanks for sharing this.