> It does seem to me that the implementation should be portable. Wow, you don't get it.
You want to add a feature. The someone will use the feature. In a script intended to be portable. But other systems won't have this feature Therefore the script won't work. That sucks. If you want to add things to standardized utilities you need to convince a large volume of people in the greater community Not me. An alternative solution for your problem already exists on all the operating systems, which is to use programmatic tools _such as perl or awk_. Every utility doesn't need to grow handling for every case, differently on every operating system.
