Simplify the Linux commands

From: Adam (adams_forum_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 03/22/04

  • Next message: Daniel Ganek: "Re: Simplify the Linux commands" 
    Date: 22 Mar 2004 08:08:45 -0800

    I'm wondering what you all think about the idea of getting rid of some
    of the redundant options in the basic commands. For example, ls has
    an option -1, which is the same as --width=1. In fact, I think ls
    should even not worry about the columns of its output, and just put 1
    file per row and have another program, maybe called "cols", which you
    can pipe the output to to split it into columns. A lot of the basic
    commands have way too many options in my opinion, and if some of them
    were removed the commands would be no less powerful.

    Of course, some of you might be concerned about
    backwards-compatability. A possible solution to this is to simply
    rename the simplified commands, for example "files" instead of "ls".
    Most UNIX commands are horribly named anyway, so this would fix 2
    problems at once. The downside to this approach is that the old
    commands still need to be on your system; but maybe over you could
    make your scripts would stop using them and they could be removed.

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