Hmmm, well that's why I like Ruby and other languages with functional approaches. Method chaining and blocks are very similar to pipes to me. cat /etc/pass

Hmmm, well that's why I like Ruby and other languages with functional approaches. Method chaining and blocks are very similar to pipes to me. cat /etc/passwd | grep root | awk -F: '{print $3}' ruby -e 'puts File.read("/etc/passwd").lines.select { |line| line.match(/root/) }.first.split(":")[2]' A little more verbose, but the idea is the same. https://alvinalexander.com/scala/fp-book/how-functional-programming-is-like-unix-pipelines https://alvinalexander.com/scala/fp-book/how-functional-prog...