In general, I’ve found the stack overflow sites to be very judgmental, even hostile, about the kinds of questions that the local grues consider “acceptable” … very unlike this forum. So be prepared for anything. But to me your question seems reasonable and worth a try.
I see you did already post on the VCFed forums without any results, but I also see another Unixflex post there got some responses, so it might be worth another try. Or maybe there are already useful pointers in that thread.