On 16/02/2020 05:52, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 15 feb 20, 20:17:07, Charles Curley wrote: >> On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:03:02 -0700 >> ghe <g...@slsware.net> wrote: >> >>> Until recently, the *nix communities have stuck pretty well to these >>> recommendations -- they're just descriptions of competent programming, >>> after all. There may be some discussion over the definitions of "one >>> thing" and "well" but there is software in our Linux that, I think, >>> doesn't conform to anybody's understanding of these maxims. >> And then there are the exceptions that illustrate the rule. Emacs, >> LibreOffice and systemd (all of which I use, not necessarily >> enthusiastically) come to mind. > ... as well as Linux (the kernel), grub, u-boot, busybox, GCC, vim, > apache / nginx, mc, (neo)mutt, etc. and that is not even including GUI > programs. > > If you truly believe in this principle without any exception throw away > your Swiss army knife / Leatherman now. And how about cat, at least the gnu version? From the man page it can also number lines, show non-printing characters, indicate line ends and suppress repeated blank lines.
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