more commands are a side effect of more capability. If you get a sense of things you can do with (|, & , >) and a dozen or so commands like sort | uniq | cut

more commands are a side effect of more capability. If you get a sense of things you can do with (|, & , >) and a dozen or so commands like sort | uniq | cut | paste | join | head | tail | sed | awk | wc | tr | fmt | col | nl | pr | find | grep | tar | export The value you get in return is intense for the effort invested. Plus, in the 10 years i've been maintaining code, bash scripts are the minority that still work as they used to with almost no change needed. That single handedly is worth my money.