Here's a quote from Chapter 5 of the Eric Raymond book (The Art Of Unix Programming) that I'm reading without actually being a programmer:
"In the following discussion, when we refer to “traditional Unix tools” we are intending the combination of grep(1), sed(1), awk(1), tr(1), and cut(1) for doing text searches and transformations. Perl and other scripting languages tend to have good native support for parsing the line-oriented formats that these tools encourage."
This is from the 'Data File Metaformats' heading in the chapter entitled "Textuality", touting the value of things being done as widely-understood text streams as opposed to the use of relatively more cryptic closed methods.
Simply referring to such a concept of "traditional Unix tools" helps reinforce what newcomers to Unix methodology are seeking to learn. This would also hold up in greater relief the point of contact between the Windows command line and Unix, as tools have been ported from one world to the other, and can be available for use in both.
