On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:00:41PM +0100, Christian Groessler wrote: > I don't have an overview of other GNU-specific options in other tools of > coreutils. But I'd guess they add genuine features which cannot accomplished > in other ways. > > But this feature at hand just seems to be a "convenience" feature. The same > can be accomplished with by using of existing features/programs.
I don't think so. I just picked ls(1) randomly, and a number of the options can be obviated with some scripting like "-a", "-A", "-q" / "--hide-control-chars" to name a few. I would also question that definition of a "convenience feature" because you can do a lot with Turing complete scripting languages that support I/O. Eric
