Re: Don't you think there are too many *sum utilities?

[xandrous]

Oh, definitely 'confusing' was a wrong word. It's all about style...
Let me explain that in different way.

Let's imagine I knew nothing about 'coreutils' and I was looking for
something that can sort text files. I'd just try to type 'sort --help'
or more likely 'man sort'. It's logical and it works. Then, if I was
looking for something that can sort text files but in reverse order,
unlikely I would try to find 'reverse_sort' or 'rsort' or any others
variants. I'd look over sort's manual page (and find '-r' option).

One more comparison. Why do we have the only one 'mknod' utility and
why don't we have separate 'bmknod' (for block devices) and 'cmknod'
(for character devices)? Do you fill the difference now?!

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Xandrous