22 Feb
2021
22 Feb
'21
10:32 a.m.
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 7:33 PM G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmai
I like the easy composability of pipes, but I don't mind some options.
I don't like the huge, all-purpose applications called web browsers nearly
as much. They strike me as Very un-unixy. But much can be justified by
not having to get users to download a client application, and not having to
get sysadmins to punch a hole through their firewalls.
I'd say it's neither, and reflects (1) the limitations of the Unix
The groff program allows to control the whole
groff system by command
line options. This is a great simplification in comparison to the
classical case (which uses pipes only).
What strikes _me_ about the above is the awful Denglish in it. I fixed
this back in 2017 and the correction shipped as part of groff 1.22.4 in
December 2018.
filter model, or at least the linear topology of Unix
pipelines[1]
I don't think they have to be linear:
http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ (see the unfortunately-named "pee"
utility)
and:
https://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/mtee.html
Full disclosure: I wrote mtee.