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> --mail=ADDR > The --email bit is a joke. what's the context of the joke?
by debdut 4y ago
> --mail=ADDR
> The --email bit is a joke.
what's the context of the joke?
- kwijybo 4y agoZawinski's Law of Software Envelopment, also known as Zawinski's Law, states: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail.
- nonrandomstring 4y agoCaught me out! I assumed it meant to send the output of the command as mail. That's vaguely useful instead of piping to a cmdline MUA. I couldn't believe I'd been missing this for 30 years and so I tried it on few things like ps aux --mail=me@domain error: unknown gnu long option Looked in my inbox. Nothing. Then I got to the bottom of the page for the punchline. grrrr
- sph 4y agoAlso the idea that GNU tools are bloated.