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I wouldn’t do that to my users; the happy path here is nice, but the unhappy path seems very likely to end in garbled bash errors that are impossible to track down.

As a user, I’m fine with embedding a reasonably small VM to handle the configs; disk space is cheap. Better yet would be a compiled binary that handles it, but that feels like asking a lot of maintainers.

There’s a lot of surface area for someone to mis-quote stuff in their environment and generate unintelligible bash errors.

Or that may be just me; I hate bash in general, so maybe it’s just that bleeding over.