On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
Right; when I've had this discussion before, I've used GNU tar as
an example of a command to avoid, and GNU awk (which can
handle an almost unlimited number of fields, as compared to SysV [n]awk)
as an example of a command that arguably improves on the original (and
yet where there was coordination with one or more of the developers of
the original to keep incompatibilities to a minimum, IIRC).
Compatibility and standards are areas where expectations of commercial
Unix users are high, IMO, and where not _all_ GNU tools are improvements
on their (formerly, in the case of OpenSolaris) proprietary models.
I can add bash to that list as well, it can be frustrating using
sh. Perfect example of a sysV tool stuck in the stoneage.
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