5 Jan
2023
5 Jan
'23
6:41 a.m.
I was today years old when I learned that GNU sort has a -h option. Which
doesn't mean "help" but means "use human-friendly units."
Except I sort of derived its existence from first principles. Someone
wanted a way to find disk hogs (they were on a Linux box), but also wanted
SI units, and I said to myself, "self, doesn't that sound like exactly the
sort of baroque and vaguely nauseating option that GNU would add to sort?"
Turns out it is.
Well, I mean, the MacOS man page just says that -h is an extension to POSIX
(yes, it's there on MacOS too), but I will eat a small hat of mine if it
didn't come to sort via GNU.
Adam
On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 5:07 PM John Cowan <cowan(a)ccil.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 3:47 PM Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I wish shells didn't supoprt globbing, and that glob(1) would be a
standalone
program still today. It would simplify much of the quoting issues if
most
characters were just characters to the shell.
I like the way the rc shell works: globbing is done, but any word in
single quotes suppresses all interpretation (double quote has no meaning)