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Re: grep problem
From: |
Alain Magloire |
Subject: |
Re: grep problem |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:24:17 -0400 (EDT) |
>
> > I'm not the grep maintainer, but '--recursive' was the top request
> > for enhancement and been in grep since 1998:
>
> I am sure it was. And my post was too perhaps written to dry and
> should have had severe cynicism wrapped around it so you could see my
> eyes rolling when I wrote it. I do not expect -r to be removed.
> But I do see the addition of it to all commands as part of the decline of
> the philosophy of a simple modular system.
>
> Eventually every command will have a complete filesystem traversion
> mechanism and all will be slightly different. People want what they
> want whether it is a good thing or not and that is all there is to it.
>
> Just the -r option is a good example of why recursion should be left
> to find. Should it be '-r' or '-R'? If the commands that implement
> filesystem traversal can't keep that single option consistent what
> hope is there for everything else? None I am afraid. Sigh.
The reply was meant to be informative and yes I read the nostalgia between the
lines:
- software nowadays are bloated
- Not following the Unix spirit
- etc ...
8-), ok.
But software should be about ease of use and ergonomy.