On Tue, Nov 19, 2013, at 03:10 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > In general, new non-standard options are bad. > > Basically, if we add this someone will use it in a script. Then it will > become non-portable. You cannot just invent something on your own like > this, without doing research to find out if someone else added a > different > option. I don't see evidence of that, so the gut answer is no.
FreeBSD and Dragonfly BSD have this option in tr. So, this actually improves portability. -- Shawn K. Quinn skqu...@rushpost.com
