24 Mar
2017
24 Mar
'17
2:51 a.m.
My belief is that if a kernel requires something like lspci to enumerate
pci resources then it's forgotten an important lesson of Unix.
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1:19 PM Michael Parson <mparson(a)bl.org> wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2017, Josh Good wrote:
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 21:28:40 +0100
From: Josh Good <pepe(a)naleco.com>
To: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Were all of you.. Hippies?
On 2017 Mar 20, 23:05, ron minnich wrote:
lspcmcia lss16toppm
At the time I got into Unix in 1976, E. F.
Schumacher's "Small is
Beautiful" book was fairly popular
(...) Those days are long gone of course; I
noticed the other day that
on Linux there are 16 commands that start with ls, that do roughly
the same function, and nobody seems to think this is a bad thing. The
only place the original 'small is beautiful' Unix ideas continue on
that I know of is Plan 9.
In RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.11 (without X-Window) I get:
$ ls<tab>
ls lsattr lsb_release lshal lspgpot
Whereas in Ubuntu 14.04 (full desktop install) I get:
$ ls<tab>
ls lsblk lscpu lsdvd lsinitramfs lsof lsattr lsb_release lsdiff lshw
lsmod lspci
lspgpot lsusb
But then, in UnixWare 2.1 I get:
$ bash<enter>
bash-2.01$ ls<tab>
(...no output...)
So yeah, it's getting more bloated by the day.
Anyone can contribute how is it on a recent OpenBSD without X-Window?
How about NetBSD 6.1.4:
$ ls<tab>
ls lsb lsextattr lsof lspci lsx lsz
Though only 'ls' and 'lsextattr' are part of the base install, the
others are owned by various things installed out of pkgsrc, ls[bxz] are
all from the same package.
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Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
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