Linux/GNU/Unix (don't murder me, I do not know which one applies here): grep, sed, awk, sort, uniq, shell scripts and pipes now do things in seconds that took

Linux/GNU/Unix (don't murder me, I do not know which one applies here): grep, sed, awk, sort, uniq, shell scripts and pipes now do things in seconds that took me hours if not days to do with Windows GUI tools. Of course my experience plays a big part to that but I don't think that I would be were I am without those.