Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!ukma!david
From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Unix philosophies (was Re: cpio -ncpio switch)
Message-ID: <9821@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 3 Jul 88 05:42:24 GMT
References: <306@uncle.UUCP> <135@skeeve.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <135@skeeve.UUCP> arnold@skeeve.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins) writes:
>** mild flame **
>Personally, putting cpio into find was a mistake, and runs counter to the
>Unix philosophy of "doing one thing well". Sadly, no-one but the people
>in BTL Research really seem to believe in that anymore.
>** flame extinguished **

Hey Arnold, calm down.

The BTL people *did* put the stuff from uniq into sort after all (sort -u).
They realized somewhere along the line that sort was often followed by uniq.
Then also, why does ls sort anything, why not use sort for that?
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