Your approach to murex "to scratch an itch" reminds me of Larry Wall's motivation to create Perl. :) Did you draw any inspiration from Perl? What about PowerShell? That's Microsoft's now cross-platform shell language - it also enables one to accomplish a lot with simple one liners.

Thanks for sharing! I'm using NixOS right now & perhaps it would benefit from a murex package.

Btw your github looks awesome! DHCP as a FUSE filesystem?? Woah.