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They are just respecting older, more venerable tools, like find.
by echlebek 6y ago
They are just respecting older, more venerable tools, like find.
- antihero 6y agoFind's syntax is really annoying and clashy too. It makes sense. -- for extended syntax and - for shorthand. Why can't it follow this. Also fuck dd
- antegamisou 6y agoSame with ffmpeg
- j-james 6y agodd I really don't mind, because it makes me think and double-check that I'm flashing the right device every time. find is annoying, though. I'd encourage you to check out fd. https://github.com/sharkdp/fd https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
- antihero 6y agoAh, thank you very much!
- kazinator 6y agoI'd like a word with the person who thought that regular ( ) parentheses for grouping were a good idea in the find syntax, requiring them to be backslash-escaped in shell scripts. The obviously right choice would have been [ ]. You know, like in if [ $foo ... ]
- scbrg 6y agoIt's pretty silly to ask a command written in the seventies(?) to follow a convention (for another operating system) presented in the nineties.