diff --git a/tests/sys/netinet6/ndp.sh b/tests/sys/netinet6/ndp.sh
--- a/tests/sys/netinet6/ndp.sh
+++ b/tests/sys/netinet6/ndp.sh
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 
 	atf_check jexec ${jname} ndp -s 2001:db8::2 90:10:00:01:02:03
 
-	t=`jexec ${jname} ndp -an | grep 2001:db8::2 | awk '{print $1, $2, $3, $4}'`
+	t=`jexec ${jname} ndp -an | awk '/2001:db8::2/ {print $1, $2, $3, $4}'`
 	if [ "${t}" != "2001:db8::2 90:10:00:01:02:03 ${epair0}a permanent" ]; then
 		atf_fail "Wrong output: ${t}"
 	fi
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/all.debug.inc b/tools/test/stress2/misc/all.debug.inc
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/all.debug.inc
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/all.debug.inc
@@ -30,62 +30,62 @@
 # Example debug include file for misc/all.sh
 
 pre_debug() {
-	debug_statfs=`vmstat -m | grep -w statfs | awk '{print $2}'`
-	debug_freework=`vmstat -m | grep -w freework | awk '{print $2}'`
-	debug_newblk=`vmstat -m | grep -w newblk | awk '{print $2}'`
-	debug_pts=`vmstat -m | grep -w pts | awk '{print $2}'`
-	debug_routetbl=`vmstat -m | grep -w routetbl | awk '{print $2}'`
-	debug_mount=`vmstat -m | awk '/  mount/{print $2}'`
-	debug_geom=`vmstat -m | grep -w GEOM | awk '{print $2}'`
-#	debug_indirdep=`vmstat -m | grep -w indirdep | awk '{print $2}'`
+	debug_statfs=`vmstat -m | awk '/statfs/ {print $2}'`
+	debug_freework=`vmstat -m | awk '/freework/ {print $2}'`
+	debug_newblk=`vmstat -m | awk '/newblk/ {print $2}'`
+	debug_pts=`vmstat -m | awk '/pts/ {print $2}'`
+	debug_routetbl=`vmstat -m | awk '/routetbl/ {print $2}'`
+	debug_mount=`vmstat -m | awk '/  mount/ {print $2}'`
+	debug_geom=`vmstat -m | awk '/GEOM/ {print $2}'`
+#	debug_indirdep=`vmstat -m | awk '/indirdep/ {print $2}'`
 }
 
 post_debug() {
 	local debug_new
 
-	debug_new=`vmstat -m | grep -w statfs | awk '{print $2}'`
+	debug_new=`vmstat -m | awk '/statfs/ {print $2}'`
 	[ $((debug_new - debug_statfs)) -gt 0 ] &&
 	    { printf "stress2: statfs leak: %d/%d.\r\n" \
 	        $((debug_new - debug_statfs)) $debug_new > $console
 		debug_statfs=$debug_new; }
 
-	debug_new=`vmstat -m | grep -w freework | awk '{print $2}'`
+	debug_new=`vmstat -m | awk '/freework/ {print $2}'`
 	[ $((debug_new - debug_freework)) -gt 0 -a $debug_new -gt 100 ] &&
 	    { printf "stress2: freework leak: %d/%d.\r\n" \
 	        $((debug_new - debug_freework)) $debug_new > $console
 		debug_freework=$debug_new; }
 
-	debug_new=`vmstat -m | grep -w newblk | awk '{print $2}'`
+	debug_new=`vmstat -m | awk '/newblk/ {print $2}'`
 	[ $((debug_new - debug_newblk)) -gt 0 -a $debug_new -gt 100 ] &&
 	    { printf "stress2: newblk leak: %d/%d.\r\n" \
 	        $((debug_new - debug_newblk)) $debug_new > $console
 		debug_newblk=$debug_new; }
 
-	debug_new=`vmstat -m | grep -w pts | awk '{print $2}'`
+	debug_new=`vmstat -m | awk '/pts/ {print $2}'`
 	[ $((debug_new - debug_pts)) -gt 0 ] &&
 	    { printf "stress2: pts leak: %d/%d\r\n" \
 	        $((debug_new - debug_pts)) $debug_new > $console
 		debug_pts=$debug_new; }
 
-	debug_new=`vmstat -m | grep -w routetbl | awk '{print $2}'`
+	debug_new=`vmstat -m | awk '/routetbl/ {print $2}'`
 	[ $((debug_new - debug_routetbl)) -gt 0 ] &&
 	    { printf "stress2: routetbl leak: %d/%d\r\n" \
 	        $((debug_new - debug_routetbl)) $debug_new > $console
 		debug_routetbl=$debug_new; }
 
-	debug_new=`vmstat -m | awk '/  mount/{print $2}'`
+	debug_new=`vmstat -m | awk '/  mount/ {print $2}'`
 	[ $((debug_new - debug_mount)) -gt 0 ] &&
 	    { printf "stress2: mount leak: %d/%d\r\n" \
 	        $((debug_new - debug_mount)) $debug_new > $console
 		debug_mount=$debug_new; }
 
-	debug_new=`vmstat -m | awk '/GEOM/{print $2}'`
+	debug_new=`vmstat -m | awk '/GEOM/ {print $2}'`
 	[ $((debug_new - debug_geom)) -gt 0 ] &&
 	    { printf "stress2: GEOM leak: %d/%d\r\n" \
 	        $((debug_new - debug_geom)) $debug_new > $console
 		debug_geom=$debug_new; }
 
-#	debug_new=`vmstat -m | awk '/indirdep/{print $2}'`
+#	debug_new=`vmstat -m | awk '/indirdep/ {print $2}'`
 #	[ $((debug_new - debug_indirdep)) -gt 100 -a $debug_new -gt 100 ] &&
 #	    { printf "stress2: indirdep leak: %d/%d\r\n" \
 #	        $((debug_new - debug_indirdep)) $debug_new > $console
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/credleak.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/credleak.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/credleak.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/credleak.sh
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 mount -t tmpfs tmpfs $mntpoint
 chmod 777 $mntpoint
 
-old=`vmstat -m | grep -w cred | awk '{print $2}'`
+old=`vmstat -m | awk '/cred/ {print $2}'`
 su $testuser -c "/tmp/credleak $mntpoint" &
 
 while kill -0 $! 2>/dev/null; do
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
 rm -f /tmp/credleak
 
 s=0
-leak=$((`vmstat -m | grep -w cred | awk '{print $2}'` - old))
+leak=$((`vmstat -m | awk '/cred/ {print $2}'` - old))
 [ $leak -gt 10 ] && { echo "M_CRED leaked $leak"; s=1; }
 exit $s
 EOF
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/dev3.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/dev3.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/dev3.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/dev3.sh
@@ -46,14 +46,14 @@
 #(cd $here/../testcases/swap; ./swap -t 10h -i 20 -l 100) > \
 #    /dev/null &
 
-pts=`vmstat -m | grep pts | awk '{print $2}'`
+pts=`vmstat -m | awk '/pts/ {print $2}'`
 [ -z "$pts" ] && pts=0
 
 e=0
 n=0
 while true; do
 	su $testuser -c "/tmp/dev3 $n"
-	new=`vmstat -m | grep pts | awk '{print $2}'`
+	new=`vmstat -m | awk '/pts/ {print $2}'`
 	if [ $new -gt $pts ]; then
 		leak=$((new - pts))
 		printf "flag %d (0x%x) leaks %d pts, %d allocated.\n" $n $n \
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/graid1_7.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/graid1_7.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/graid1_7.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/graid1_7.sh
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 			gmirror forget test
 			gmirror remove test $u
 			gmirror insert test $u
-			id=`gmirror status test | grep gptid | awk '{print $1}'`
+			id=`gmirror status test | awk '/gptid/ {print $1}'`
 			if [ $i -eq 1 -a -n "$id" ]; then
 				echo "FAIL Remove component $id"
 				gmirror remove test $id
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/largepage.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/largepage.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/largepage.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/largepage.sh
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 /tmp/largepage
 s=$?
 
-for path in `posixshmcontrol ls | grep largepage | awk '{print $NF}'`; do
+for path in `posixshmcontrol ls | awk '/largepage/ {print $NF}'`; do
 	echo "posixshmcontrol rm $path"
 	posixshmcontrol rm $path
 done
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/marcus3.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/marcus3.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/marcus3.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/marcus3.sh
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
     { echo "deadlkres must be disabled for this test."; exit 0; }
 
 n=`find ../testcases -perm -1 -type f | wc -l`
-m=`su $testuser -c "limits | grep maxprocesses | awk '{print \\$NF}'"`
+m=`su $testuser -c "limits | awk '/maxprocesses/ {print \\$NF}'"`
 export runRUNTIME=15m
 export INCARNATIONS=$((m / n))
 export swapINCARNATIONS=$INCARNATIONS
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/marcus4.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/marcus4.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/marcus4.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/marcus4.sh
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
     { echo "deadlkres must be disabled for this test."; exit 0; }
 
 n=`find ../testcases -perm -1 -type f | wc -l`
-m=`su $testuser -c "limits | grep maxprocesses | awk '{print \\$NF}'"`
+m=`su $testuser -c "limits | awk 'maxprocesses/ {print \\$NF}'"`
 m=$((m / 2))
 
 export INCARNATIONS=$((m / n))
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/mountu.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/mountu.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/mountu.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/mountu.sh
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 
 pstat() {
 	local pid
-	pid=`ps ax | grep -v grep | grep /tmp/mountu | awk '{print $1}'`
+	pid=`ps ax | awk '/\/tmp\/mountu/ {print $1}'`
 	[ -n "$pid" ] && procstat -v $pid
 }
 
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/nullfs7.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/nullfs7.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/nullfs7.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/nullfs7.sh
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 	mount -oro -t nullfs $RUNDIR $DST
 	mount -orw -t nullfs /bin $DST
 done
-mount | grep nullfs | awk '{print $3}' | xargs umount
+mount | awk '/nullfs/ {print $3}' | xargs umount
 
 while mount | grep $mntpoint | grep -q /dev/md; do
 	umount $mntpoint || sleep 1
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/posix_fadvise.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/posix_fadvise.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/posix_fadvise.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/posix_fadvise.sh
@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@
 sed '1,/^EOF/d' < $odir/$0 > posix_fadvise.c
 mycc -o posix_fadvise -Wall -Wextra -O2 -g posix_fadvise.c
 
-n1=`vmstat -m | grep fadvise | awk '{print $2 + 0}'`
+n1=`vmstat -m | awk '/fadvise/ {print $2 + 0}'`
 /tmp/posix_fadvise
-n2=`vmstat -m | grep fadvise | awk '{print $2 + 0}'`
+n2=`vmstat -m | awk '/fadvise/ {print $2 + 0}'`
 if [ $((n2 - n1)) -gt 10 ]; then
 	echo FAIL
 	vmstat -m | sed -n '1p;/fadvise/p'
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/pts2.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/pts2.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/pts2.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/pts2.sh
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@
 mycc -o pts2 -Wall -Wextra -O2 pts2.c || exit 1
 rm -f pts2.c
 
-pts=`vmstat -m | grep pts | awk '{print $2}'`
+pts=`vmstat -m | awk '/pts/ {print $2}'`
 for i in `jot 10`; do
 	/tmp/pts2
 done
-new=`vmstat -m | grep pts | awk '{print $2}'`
+new=`vmstat -m | awk '/pts/ {print $2}'`
 s=0
 [ $((new - pts)) -gt 1 ] && { s=1; echo "Leaked $((new - pts)) pts."; }
 
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/radix.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/radix.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/radix.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/radix.sh
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
 	FILE *f;
 	int r;
 
-	if ((f = popen("vmstat -z | grep RADIX | awk -F',' '{print $3}'", "r")) == NULL)
+	if ((f = popen("vmstat -z | awk -F',' '/RADIX/ {print $3}'", "r")) == NULL)
 		err(1, "popen");
 	fscanf(f, "%d", &r);
 	pclose(f);
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/routetbl.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/routetbl.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/routetbl.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/routetbl.sh
@@ -39,14 +39,14 @@
 mdconfig -a -t swap -s 128m -u $mdstart || exit 1
 newfs $newfs_flags md$mdstart > /dev/null
 
-routetbl=`vmstat -m | grep routetbl | awk '{print $2}'`
+routetbl=`vmstat -m | awk '/routetbl/ {print $2}'`
 s=0
 start=`date +%s`
 while [ $((`date +%s` - start)) -lt 60 ]; do
 	mount /dev/md$mdstart $mntpoint &&
 	    umount $mntpoint
 done
-routetbl=$((`vmstat -m | grep routetbl | awk '{print $2}'` - routetbl))
+routetbl=$((`vmstat -m | awk '/routetbl/ {print $2}'` - routetbl))
 [ $routetbl -gt 0 ] &&
     { echo "routetbl grew $routetbl"; s=1; }
 
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/sched.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/sched.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/sched.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/sched.sh
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 (cd $mntpoint; /tmp/sched $((cpus + 1))) > /dev/null 2>&1 &
 sleep 30
 export LANG=C
-top -U nobody -d 1 | grep nobody | awk '{print $11}' | sed 's/%//' |
+top -U nobody -d 1 | awk '/nobody/ {print $11}' | sed 's/%//' |
     ministat -A -w 73 | tail -1 | awk '{if ($NF > 1.0) exit 1}' ||
 { echo Broken; top -U nobody -d 1 | grep nobody; }
 killall sched
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/select3.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/select3.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/select3.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/select3.sh
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@
 
 # Check if M_SELECT leaks: nselect > threads
 
-m=`vmstat -m | grep -w select | awk '{print $2}'`
-threads=`vmstat -z  | sed 's/,/ /g' | grep THREAD | awk '{print $4}'`
-free=`vmstat -z  | sed 's/,/ /g' | grep THREAD | awk '{print $5}'`
+m=`vmstat -m | awk '/select/ {print $2}'`
+threads=`vmstat -z  | sed 's/,/ /g' | awk 'THREAD/ {print $4}'`
+free=`vmstat -z  | sed 's/,/ /g' | awk '/THREAD/ {print $5}'`
 [ $m -le $((threads + free)) ] && exit 0
 
 echo FAIL
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/signal.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/signal.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/signal.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/signal.sh
@@ -223,8 +223,8 @@
 if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
 	procstat -t $pid > pstat
 
-	t1=`grep fifo  pstat | awk '{print $2}'`
-	t2=`grep umtxn pstat | awk '{print $2}' | tail -1`
+	t1=`awk '/fifo/ {print $2}' pstat`
+	t2=`awk '/umtxn/ {print $2}' pstat | tail -1`
 
 	set -e
 	./tkill $pid $t1 5	# SIGTRAP
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/syscall5.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/syscall5.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/syscall5.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/syscall5.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
 . ../default.cfg
 
-syscall=`grep SYS_MAXSYSCALL /usr/include/sys/syscall.h | awk '{print $NF}'`
+syscall=`awk '/SYS_MAXSYSCALL/ {print $NF}' /usr/include/sys/syscall.h`
 syscall=$((syscall - 1))
 esyscall=0
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
 n=$syscall
 start=`date '+%s'`
 while [ $n -gt 0 ]; do
-	ps -lUnobody | grep syscall4 | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill
+	ps -lUnobody | awk '/syscall4/ {print $2}' | xargs kill
 	ln -fs $n $last
 	name=`grep -w "$n$" /usr/include/sys/syscall.h | awk '{print $2}' |
 		sed 's/SYS_//'`
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/tcp.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/tcp.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/tcp.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/tcp.sh
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 chmod 777 $RUNDIR
 export runRUNTIME=15m
 export tcpLOAD=100
-n=`su $testuser -c "limits | grep maxprocesses | awk '{print \\$NF}'"`
+n=`su $testuser -c "limits | awk '/maxprocesses/ {print \\$NF}'"`
 n=$((n - `ps aux | wc -l`))
 export tcpINCARNATIONS=$((n / 2 - 400))
 [ $tcpINCARNATIONS -le 0 ] && exit 0
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/tcp2.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/tcp2.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/tcp2.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/tcp2.sh
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 export runRUNTIME=15m
 export tcpLOAD=100
 export swapLOAD=100
-n=`su $testuser -c "limits | grep maxprocesses | awk '{print \\$NF}'"`
+n=`su $testuser -c "limits | awk '/maxprocesses/ {print \\$NF}'"`
 [ $n -gt 50000 ] && n=50000
 n=$((n - `ps aux | wc -l`))
 export tcpINCARNATIONS=$((n / 2 - 400))
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/trim6.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/trim6.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/trim6.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/trim6.sh
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 
 [ `id -u ` -ne 0 ] && echo "Must be root!" && exit 1
 
-r=`mount | grep -w soft-updates | awk '{print $1}' | while read dev; do
+r=`mount | awk '/soft-updates/ {print $1}' | while read dev; do
 	dumpfs $dev | head -20 | grep -qw trim || continue
 	df -k $dev
 done |  sort -rn +3 | head -1 | awk '{print $4, $6}'`
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/trim7.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/trim7.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/trim7.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/trim7.sh
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 mount | grep -q /media ||
     echo "Prerequisite: /media is a TRIM enabled file system."
 
-r=`mount | grep -w soft-updates | awk '{print $1}' | while read dev; do
+r=`mount | awk '/soft-updates/ {print $1}' | while read dev; do
 	dumpfs $dev | grep -m1 flags | grep -qw trim || continue
 	df -k $dev
 done |  sort -rn +3 | head -1 | awk '{print $4, $6}'`
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/misc/vfork.sh b/tools/test/stress2/misc/vfork.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/misc/vfork.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/misc/vfork.sh
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
 ./vfork1 &
 sleep .2
 childpid=`ps -lx | grep -v grep | grep vfork1 |
-    tail -1 | grep nanslp | awk '{print $2}'`
+    tail -1 | awk '/nanslp/ {print $2}'`
 # Seen before fix:
 # failed to set signal flags properly for ast()
 ./vfork2 $childpid
diff --git a/tools/test/stress2/tools/splitall.sh b/tools/test/stress2/tools/splitall.sh
--- a/tools/test/stress2/tools/splitall.sh
+++ b/tools/test/stress2/tools/splitall.sh
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 cd ../misc
 exclude=`cat all.exclude $alllocal 2>/dev/null | sed '/^#/d' |
-    grep "\.sh" | awk '{print $1}'`
+    awk '/\.sh/ {print $1}'`
 
 list=$(echo `ls *.sh` | sed  "s/all\.sh//; s/cleanup\.sh//")
 
diff --git a/tools/tools/zfsboottest/zfsboottest.sh b/tools/tools/zfsboottest/zfsboottest.sh
--- a/tools/tools/zfsboottest/zfsboottest.sh
+++ b/tools/tools/zfsboottest/zfsboottest.sh
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 	echo "No such pool \"${pool}\"." >&2
 	exit 1
 fi
-bootfs=`zpool get bootfs "${pool}" | tail -1 | awk '{print $3}'`
+bootfs=`zpool get -Ho value bootfs "${pool}"`
 if [ "${bootfs}" = "-" ]; then
 	bootfs="${pool}"
 fi
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 	exit 1
 fi
 vdevs=""
-for vdev in `zpool status "${pool}" | grep ONLINE | awk '{print $1}'`; do
+for vdev in `zpool status "${pool}" | awk '/ONLINE/ {print $1}'`; do
 	vdev="/dev/${vdev#/dev/}"
 	if [ -c "${vdev}" ]; then
 		if [ -z "${vdevs}" ]; then