On Wed, Nov 20, 2013, at 12:49 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > > On 2013/11/20 07:40, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > > >> FreeBSD and Dragonfly BSD have this option in tr. So, this actually > >> improves portability. > > It's just spreading the disease. portable means it works everywhere. > Increasing the number of people who can write nonportable code is not > the same as increasing portability.
How many others have to adopt it before it's considered portable, then? Would you feel the same way if this were the -l option on ls, GNU had it, and none of the BSD descendants did? It's possible, as mentioned elsewhere, that simply making tr be unbuffered by default is the better move, and ignore -u for compatibility with FreeBSD and Dragonfly BSD. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com
