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Most Unix tools have well-documented output.
by fwip 8y ago
Most Unix tools have well-documented output.
- WalterGR 8y agoWhat do you mean by Unix tools, and what do you mean by well-documented? Hypothetical example: can I read only the man pages of GNU’s and all BSD’s `ls`es and from that write a cross-platform tool that parses the output of all of them?
- fwip 8y agoCheck out the section "stdout" of the POSIX standard here: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ls.html http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ls...