20 Sep
2019
20 Sep
'19
3:46 a.m.
On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, Arthur Krewat wrote:
Serious question:
Which is better, creating a whole new binary to put in /usr/bin to do a
single task, or add a flag to cat?
Which is better, a proliferation of binaries w/standalone source code, or a
single code tree that can handle slightly different tasks and save space?
:)
art k.
I would argue that the more "Unix" way to do it is have the multiple
binaries. One job, one tool, and chain them together to make bigger
tools.
-uso.