Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 15:13:25 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Simon Marlow <simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk> Cc: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: from(1) Message-ID: <199509221313.PAA25411@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <199509221205.OAA27478@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <199509211314.PAA05392@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> <199509221205.OAA27478@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Simon Marlow writes: >I disagree entirely. The generality provided by pipes and pipe >combinators far outweighs the slight performance gain by implementing >the options directly. How many other programs are you going to add >'-c' to? What about the programs where '-c' is already taken, and you >have to use an inconsistent flag? grep have already '-c'. I add -c to locate. It is a real difference between 13MB I/O or 115MB. >A valid point, but this is a shell problem and not worth sacrificing >the philosophy of an operating system for. ^philosophy^religion Do you want remove 'z' flag from tar because $ tar cfvz - files ... > x.tgz break old unix philosophy?
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