> The problem is less that people don't understand shell commands but more there is too much stuff to remember. But is it really better in the long run to add

> The problem is less that people don't understand shell commands but more there is too much stuff to remember. But is it really better in the long run to add more and more additional tools? Is it less work to understand and remember more uses of fewer commands or is it less work to understand and remember more specialized commands? The latter is clearly more administrative work, because you have to install all those tools on your machines. On the other hand, finding more uses of a few select tools creates those associations in your brain that you need to cover new usages for them yourself. To me that's a clear win for the side of fewer well-understood tools.