[alkonaut]

This is much better as it’s portable and doesn’t cheat by assuming awk/grep/etc are available.

[mandelbrotwurst]

Honest question, what kind of environments are you working in where you don't / can't have these?

[alkonaut]

Windows (cmd/powershell).

It wouldn’t surprise me if windows cmd is the most common environment for git on command line, since windows is the most common OS among developers (and git-bash is terrible).