> He just explains that the philosophy is not consistently followed, but he is not unhappy with it. Which is exactly the reason for the glut of command line op

> He just explains that the philosophy is not consistently followed, but he is not unhappy with it. Which is exactly the reason for the glut of command line options. A great example of following Unix philosophy using a more recent example is the ssh client on plan 9. It is split into three separate programs each with their own man page: ssh(1) for terminal access, sshfs(4) for mounting a remote file tree, and sshnet(4) which imports a remote machines tcp stack. Keep it simple, stupid.