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Fascinating. The /bin/true started as an empty script and /bin/false as "exit 1", then someone added -version command (why!?) and then someone added help for th

by dvh 8y ago

Fascinating. The /bin/true started as an empty script and /bin/false as "exit 1", then someone added -version command (why!?) and then someone added help for this unnecessary -version command. Now it is 22kB binary and it's not even used because bash implements it's own.

martinpw 8y ago
That was the size in 2012. On my current Debian system it is 31k. So I guess the bloating continues.
tonyedgecombe 8y ago
You see these things happen in corporates a lot, somewhere in the hierarchy a decree is sent down that every program should have a --version option and that gets implemented without question. The worst of these organisations accrete so many rules that it becomes almost impossible to get any work done.