>And they're all very simple, which is the whole point of Unix tools. Not all Unix tools are simple. E.g. make. But I know what you mean - the Unix philosophy.

>And they're all very simple, which is the whole point of Unix tools. Not all Unix tools are simple. E.g. make. But I know what you mean - the Unix philosophy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy The TAOUP book by Eric Raymond (The Art Of Unix Programming) has a lot about that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Unix_Programming https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Unix_Programming And my IBM developerWorks tutorial / case study on Developing a Linux command-line utility (in C) may be of interest to people who want to write their own Unix tools that play well with others. https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2014/09/my-ibm-developerworks-article.html?m=0 https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2014/09/my-ibm-developerworks-ar...