== Quote from Jason House (jason.james.ho...@gmail.com)'s article > The problem with GUI interfaces is that common things are easy and uncommon things are impossible. One unix tool you will use over and over again is grep. As a commandline utility, it can be combined with other stuff such as ls, sort, grep, sed, awk, etc... I don't know if I'd start there though...
Yes, but often the command line tool has so many switches and tries to be so general and is such a PITA to use that it may as well be its own little programming language. (See inner platform effect.) At that point, for anything non-trivial (i.e. far beyond the default use of said tool), I'd rather just write a small, quick and dirty program in a general-purpose programming language and standard library that I already know than learn the intricacies of these command line tools.
