On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:43:00PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > > Please give a detailed technical reason for why that's an issue. AFAIK > > pretty much every GNU tool implementation is both more functional and > > significantly faster than the ancient system V ones. > > Errm. > > ls -e > ls -v > ls -E > ls -V > du -d > df -g > df -o > > simply don't work any more.
Things are different, sure. The only significant thing *missing* is ACL stuff - that's a problem, but hardly an insurmountable one. And as you point out, if you really, really, want to type "df -F ufs -o i" instead of "df -i", you can change the PATH. > There are surely many more examples. Compared to the wins from using the GNU tools (gee, grep got an -r option!) all your examples seem rather minor... regards john
