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Just to piggyback on this, the source code for the BSD utils is eminently readable and simple, almost always more so than the equivalent GNU options. I understa
by jacobmartin 5y ago
Just to piggyback on this, the source code for the BSD utils is eminently readable and simple, almost always more so than the equivalent GNU options. I understand that there are reasons for this, and I'm obviously very grateful for all sorts of GNU software. But if I want to see how something works, I'm going to go for the BSD sources first if they exist.