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I guess it depends on your view of "easier". You may prefer a scripting language that has everything under one roof (even a compiler!), while I very much prefer the pipeline approach (which has many different compilers).

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Powershell also supports pipes. Bash pipes are limited to text files. I concede that the *nix infrastructure of utilities is more mature.

There's no text/binary difference. The I/O streams are effectively always in binary mode.

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