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That you don't like the design and coding style strikes me as a poor reason not to use a system. It's utterly orthogonal to whether that system solves your problem.

I am prepared to bet $250 -- your choice of USD or AUD -- that within 1 year your shell script will have grown beyond seven commands.

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I've been using my own bash scripts for a few years to manage local VMs with KVM for dev and I have exactly 6 commands in 249 lines (excluding blank and comments) and never needed more: image, create, start, stop, delete, list. Where can I collect my $250 USD?

Cute, but that wasn't the bet. They were referring to seven bash commands, i.e. "lines". So you lose by 242 commands.

A bash command is not a line, and a line is not a "command". But you can be pedantic if you want, I won't stop you. :)

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