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I would imagine that no matter how small the operation (well aside of operations executed directly by the cpu), there's still the possibility to break i
by cturner 14y ago
I would imagine that no matter how small the operation
(well aside of operations executed directly by the cpu),
there's still the possibility to break it up into smaller
parts.
The scripting system could have been designed to make layering easier. Bourne descendants are ugly and awkward. Hence, unix evolved into a situation where ls had lots of features, whereas were there a better scripting system, we might have had a standard environment which you could introspect deeper and extend with more confidence.
- ori_b 14y ago> The scripting system could have been designed to make layering easier. How? sh sucks for anything involved, but I can't think of a way to simplify pipelines much.
- jcmhn 14y agoA line oriented xargs could have been built in from day one. A pair of shell variables honored by commands that let you specify output wrappers or separators would have been nice too. Think "-Q" in gnu ls, but universally supported and user-controlled.