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He probably meant having the same internal interface, it would still be doable to have various aliased commands that call the same interface.

As for UNIX philosophy of stringing together lots of general purpose commands to get the desired result - the nice thing about that is you don't need to know programming, and it's very convenient for one off scripting.




As for UNIX philosophy of stringing together lots of general purpose commands to get the desired result - the nice thing about that is you don't need to know programming, and it's very convenient for one off scripting.

I beg to differ. It's a workflow by and for programmers, or at least people who think like programmers.




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