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On Feb 12, 2014, at 7:46 PM, otahler@gmx.ca wrote:

> Is Lua good enough to be used for (simple) shell scripting?

Yes.

> Is there anyone who is already using Lua for such purpose?

Yes. Anything from mining svn logs to curl’ing JIRAs, to full email stack processing with reformail & mess822, to database management with sqlplus, etc, etc…  

io.popen is your friend :)