10 Aug
2001
10 Aug
'01
7:35 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Carlos Murillo once stated:
At 01:16 AM 8/10/01 -0400, you wrote:
What I was trying to say is that `ls' uses single letter options preceeded
by a dash (-l -a -F), `find' uses full words with a dash (-print -follow)
and `dd' uses words/abreviations without dashes (if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
count=45) and all three are found on every Unix system (at least, all the
ones I've used and I've used a fair number of them).
-spc (And can you explain the insanely different
command line parameters
to ls (typical Unix command line), find and dd? All three, I think
are POSIX to some degree 8-)
Mhh, care to highlight a particularly nasty difference in ls? (dd I know).
When in doubt, use sed. Except for a certain bug in the HPUX 10.20
release, it behaves quite uniformly across the board. I brought the issue of interoperability on board
because I like to be able
to use different unixes w/o too many different quirks; however, we
started comparing DCL vs. Unix shells. Interoperability is a moot issue
for DCL, of course. It is a higher standard that we're requiring
of Unix. Perhaps we should stick to one flavor of Unix when making
the comparisons? (I know, I'm taking a step back from my former position;
you guys are too tough :-) ).
I am talking about a single flavor of Unix 8-)
-spc (Oh, then there's the GNU utilities which can also take full
words preceeded by two dashes ... )