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> What exactly is the UNIX philosophy? I believe it is the idea of writing small tools focused on doing one thing well with reusability in mind as opposed to w
by rifung 7y ago
> What exactly is the UNIX philosophy?
I believe it is the idea of writing small tools focused on doing one thing well with reusability in mind as opposed to writing larger complicated tools that do multiple things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
- pjmlp 7y agoA cargo cult philosophy never adopted by commercial UNIX clones and adored by UNIX FOSS, where the man page of each GNU tool describing the available set of command line arguments looks like a kitchen sink.