Yes, the point was about doing it in a pipeline. The pipeline is the basis for composition of plain text in the unix shell. If something as basic as sorting a table is hard to do, it should make us question just how good the unix shell/plain text philosophy actually is.
Baking --sort flags into shell tools is a sign that the tools do not compose well.
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Yes, the point was about doing it in a pipeline. The pipeline is the basis for composition of plain text in the unix shell. If something as basic as sorting a table is hard to do, it should make us question just how good the unix shell/plain text philosophy actually is.
Baking --sort flags into shell tools is a sign that the tools do not compose well.