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> 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
by 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.