david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) (07/03/88)
In article <135@skeeve.UUCP> arnold@skeeve.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins) writes: >** mild flame ** >Personally, putting cpio into find was a mistake, and runs counter to the >Unix philosophy of "doing one thing well". Sadly, no-one but the people >in BTL Research really seem to believe in that anymore. >** flame extinguished ** Hey Arnold, calm down. The BTL people *did* put the stuff from uniq into sort after all (sort -u). They realized somewhere along the line that sort was often followed by uniq. Then also, why does ls sort anything, why not use sort for that? -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <david@ms.uky.edu> <---- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- I'm not bad, I'm just coded that way!