I don’t mind that programs provide output that can be chained and so on, but what annoys me is when portable (cross platform) apps m, like e.g git, doesn’t provide core functionality without the assumption of a specific environment. It's fine to let the user sort the outputs using an external program. But if the sorting is so commonly required that it's a "core feature" then perhaps the program itself should do it.

Since most developers use windows, most windows users use cmd as their shell and git is the most common vcs around, it wouldn’t surprise me if the most common environment for git is ... Windows cmd. Where there is no sed/grep/awk etc!