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I am the biggest fan of Unix commandline tools but I think you vastly overestimate how universal unix pipes are. For example, if I asked you to guess (no readin

I am the biggest fan of Unix commandline tools but I think you vastly overestimate how universal unix pipes are. For example, if I asked you to guess (no reading man pages or trying commands out!) how `find(1)` interprets input supplied to `stdin`, what would your guess be? Comparing your guess with what you learn from the man pages is an indication of how inconsistent most of the classic Unix tools are.

tonyarkles 6y ago
> how `find(1)` interprets input supplied to `stdin`, what would your guess be? I'm on OS X here, and I can't find any info about this at all in the man pages! I'd never really thought much about it; usually find is the very start of the pipeline for me. I have run into the -print0 option before though when passing the output into xargs :)