For me, clever one liners is a very much an iterative process. In the example given I'd find (memory or Google) the program to spit out each word, then find how

For me, clever one liners is a very much an iterative process. In the example given I'd find (memory or Google) the program to spit out each word, then find how to count them, somehow sort it. In the end you might have a multi line sequence of commands, then you gradually move them to pipes. It is rarely written in one swoop anyway.