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

2018-07-04 Thread Karel Zak
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 07:48:04PM +0200, kalle wrote: > 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

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

2018-07-03 Thread David Both
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

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

2018-07-03 Thread David Both
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

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

2018-07-03 Thread kalle
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