> One cohesive program designed to all work together sometimes just makes more sense Yes, your example of find|grep is perfect for this. Sometimes (not often)

> One cohesive program designed to all work together sometimes just makes more sense Yes, your example of find|grep is perfect for this. Sometimes (not often) I have a situation where a simple pipe combination doesn’t work and I have to fall back to awk, which would be the single cohesive (and more complicated ) program.