Who else here really doesn't enjoy using sed, awk, grep, and xargs? I try to use ack whenever I can avoid grep or find, personally. I wish there were better re

Who else here really doesn't enjoy using sed, awk, grep, and xargs? I try to use ack whenever I can avoid grep or find, personally. I wish there were better replacements for the other tools and that they were widely available (possibly as portable libraries).