At 8/27/2005 10:39 +0530, _z33 wrote:
When using commands like 'ls', 'du' & 'df', I fnd special switches
to the commands that convert the usage details reported by these
programs into human readable format. I am still not able to
understand why these switches aren't enabled by default?
"backward compatibility"
These commands are all used by scripts and other sorts of programs to
provide information that's then parsed by the program. If you change
the default behavior you break all those programs.
--
Jeff Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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