Re: w(1), who(1), last(1) and unix philosophy

Actually, quite the opposite. "Make each program do one thing well," Mike Gancarz, "Linux and the Unix Philosophy," Digital Press. Others say it in this form: "Each program should do one thing and do it well." These programs are only similar on the surface. If we look at the man pages and th

Re: w(1), who(1), last(1) and unix philosophy

Actually, quite the opposite. "Make each program do one thing well," Mike Gancarz, "Linux and the Unix Philosophy," Digital Press. Others say it in this form: "Each program should do one thing and do it well." These programs are only similar on the surface. If we look at the man pages and th

w(1), who(1), last(1) and unix philosophy

hello. with this mail I address e-mail-adresses related to the projects GNU coreutils, util-linux and procps. it seems to me, that the programs who(1) [belonging to GNU coreutils], w (1) [belonging to procps] and maybe also last(1) [belonging to util-linux] are giving out similar output. Wouldn't