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fsflover ◴[22 Oct 24 15:05 UTC] No.41915013[source]▶
Doesn't it contradict with the Unix philosophy of "Make each program do one thing well"? I don't see how cp and ls are getting infinitely more complex with time.
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pphysch ◴[22 Oct 24 15:45 UTC] No.41915487[source]▶
Dan Luu: The growth of command line options, 1979-2017

https://danluu.com/cli-complexity/

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