Ah I left out a few sentences. My passive aggressiveness is directed at the state of Linux distros today, not at the parent. I agree that his scheme is a lot better than the mess we deal with today.

> Grep is a huge part of my workflow.

You can flatten and grep structured binary formats too.

I honestly feel like you were just matching the tone of my comment so no harm done really. Mine was smarmy, yours passive aggressive. Its like a 90s sitcom in here!