Writing a Bash builtin in C to parse INI configs (mbuki-mvuki.org)

Interesting! A use case I could see for using builtins would be to gradually rewrite a bash script in some other language, as otherwise you have to do it through subprocess which can be slow and inconvenient.

Huh. This made me curious about JSON which led to https://github.com/Wiguwbe/bash-json

I have had to graft JSON into legacy bash files enough times that this is worth another look.

Self plug: https://github.com/lsferreira42/bash-ini-parser