The Forgotten Basics: Why ps, grep, and awk Still Beat Fancy Tools

The Forgotten Basics

Modern dashboards look impressive. Yet, when systems fail, we return to the shell.
The basics – ps, grep, awk, ip, nmcli, sed, uniq, sort – never left.

They are still the quickest path between question and answer.

This post is not nostalgia. It’s about precision, control, and speed.
The old tools survive because they do exactly what we ask.

The UNIX philosophy is still alive: one task – one tool.

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