There are multiple ways you can do this already from within a script
> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
When the cli didnt have support for what I needed
one of them beeing echoing text to a file. to me, your comparison makes no sense.