On 6/13/05, Humberto Massa Guimarães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a lot of scripts today in production use that use the > output of ls, ps, in a text-way. If you want to put another command, > or another switch to "ls", ok, but the fact that you *can* do it > does not mean that you *should* do it. (see below)
Didn't you say (or someone else) say the output of these commands was (only) for human consumption? > > > Obviously, some Monad clone can be done with its entire > > > toolchain (monad-ls, monad-tableout) ... > > > > Why not ls --monad? > > If you want to fork and maintain forever util-linux, I have nothing > to say about that. Why fork and not just change the 'real' util-linux? ;-> > But I *will* leave you (I'm going home from work now) with Occam's > razor: > > Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitem. > > (Things shouldn't be multiplied without necessity) > IOW: if it's not broken, don't fix it. If only it wasn't broken. Netstat for example suffers from truncation.
