Have interns shovel it all into scanners, run the result through tesseract, then do the thing I said before. Nonetheless, I don't think your question is sincere; what point are you actually trying to get at?
Sorry, I was just trying to make a joke (about both insane systems and interview questions) since the question you answered was a bit unclear. Guess it didn't land, haha.
Ah, that makes much more sense. It read as somewhat aggressive in a way that I couldn't quite make sense of; my best guess was that you were insinuating that the unix tools I was reaching for were arcane and unwieldy. Thanks for clarifying.