[normaljoe]

That's because they are Windows admins and not nix admins. They probably don't have a good understanding of the command line and if they do not the rich nix command line.

I have a single pg admin in current project and he can throw most tasks to the Oracle (running on Linux) admins or even junior Linux admins.

While "complex" they are still fairly basic to command line admins.

Anything with less than 3 pipes or one regex should be simple to command line *nix person. Granted to excludes you including a complex AWK script or inline perl execution on the command line instead of in a file like a normal sane person.