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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?