This is one of those things that really irks me about the Unix shell.

You're totally right that commands like `cat *.txt | grep foo` look right and feel intuitive, but the problem is that it's not actually equivalent to `grep foo *.txt`. With a single input file, it's probably not an issue, but with multiple files the downstream command can't actually see what file it's reading from, so in this example grep can't report filenames with matches and you can't use flags like --include/--exclude based on filenames.

I keep wishing for a Unix-like shell and utilities where `cat *.txt | grep foo` actually works the same as `grep foo *.txt`. PowerShell has pulled this off to some extent, which is cool, but it doesn't quite feel right to me compared to Bash.