REST is nice, bash is best (command line client?)

Forgive me if I've missed this, but:

While having REST is nice as an interface, has anybody created a command line client to allow at least some simple operations to be performed within a script (or Makefile, or ...)?

I'd like to automate pulling resources into a project during build, so having a command like:

ram_get --id=<guid>

that would do all the REST operations to give me that resource would be great.

(bonus points for being fancier and allowing me to do things like "given this asset, get a related asset identified by ....")

Am I the only weirdo that wants to access things from a command line?