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new blog post: why I never talk about the unix philosophy (it means nothing) https://blog.toast.cafe/unix-philosophy

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> Hell, consider GNU true which can return 1. Just run this! /bin/true --help >&- and see what's in $?. It had one job.

I don't think anyone would consider GNU coreutils (or any GNU software for that matter) a very good example of Unix Philosophy, and `/bin/true --help` was the top example of where it fails.

Wolf480pl · 7w

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Ignas Kiela · 7w

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Taylan (GNU+Feminism Cat) · 7w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq0cq07ulfyc7y2l8rczk9s36g8j65tq3m6xk9us8hr3ua4ktfmaqq05h6ty nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq4ctzhkweg9pz6jaxrn370sr8s2ck9u2r6pgfputdzplv3zluppeskf0x09 I don't like these criticisms of GNU coreutils much. The fact that it ...