Thanks, that wasn't the point. What I was trying to say is that if you use those helpers you're looking up stuff in a man page anyway, so knowing shell scripting isn't enough any longer.
My personal opinion is that having a simple, INI-derived language is better than keeping the weirdness of the shell language just to assign a couple of variables (and you can still launch shell scripts from units anyway).
My personal opinion is that having a simple, INI-derived language is better than keeping the weirdness of the shell language just to assign a couple of variables (and you can still launch shell scripts from units anyway).