I’ve tried a few of these, but most of them seem to be following the trend of folding other shell functionality into one tool. Searching for contents (find + grep -H, or ripgrep), filtering (grep), sorting (ls does it natively, or you can use sort, sort -h for sorting human readable sizes), the list goes on and on.
I guess this is a mini lament that many of these tools are moving away from the Unix philosophy of do one thing well, and make it easy to chain.
And a last very small lament that BeOS didn’t succeed, and their filesystem-as-a-database approach didn’t become more standard.
I guess this is a mini lament that many of these tools are moving away from the Unix philosophy of do one thing well, and make it easy to chain.
And a last very small lament that BeOS didn’t succeed, and their filesystem-as-a-database approach didn’t become more standard.