[jfhufl]

Hmmm, well that's why I like Ruby and other languages with functional approaches. Method chaining and blocks are very similar to pipes to me.

    cat /etc/passwd | grep root | awk -F: '{print $3}'

    ruby -e 'puts File.read("/etc/passwd").lines.select { |line| line.match(/root/) }.first.split(":")[2]'

A little more verbose, but the idea is the same.

https://alvinalexander.com/scala/fp-book/how-functional-prog...

[anthk]

awk -F: '/root/ {print $3}' < /etc/passwd