On 5/29/26 08:45, Arka Mondal wrote:
The main motivation for crtfile is not that each individual operation is impossible today. Rather, it is that there is no dedicated user-facing utility for creating a new file with requested initialization properties. Today this often requires composing several tools whose main purposes are different.
It's called the UNIX philosophy: one tool for one purpose. That section in the manual is from an article more than 30 years ago now, but still most of it holds true: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Toolbox-introduction.html Have a nice day, Berny
