> [...] but they're just scripts he has on his system. Personally I'd prefer to use the ubiquitous commands that work everywhere than rely on having custom scri

> [...] but they're just scripts he has on his system. Personally I'd prefer to use the ubiquitous commands that work everywhere than rely on having custom scripts on my system [...] Is okay for one to have their own tools. $ f() { printf "\$%s" "$1"; } $ echo a b c | awk '{ print $(f 2) }' His system is not very different from mine or yours. He just chose to combine the tools in a specific way.