21 Mar
2017
21 Mar
'17
9:28 p.m.
On 2017 Mar 20, 23:05, ron minnich wrote:
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 lspcmcia
lss16toppm
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?
--
Josh Good