Re: why aren't gnu utils normalized?

[John Hasler]

Barry Margolin writes:
> I think the answer to his general question, then, is that it would
> take an enormous amount of work to get all commands to be consistent
> this way.  There are lots of commands that work on similar kinds of
> data, and they each have options that are specific to what they do, as
> well as some options that are more general.  Reconciling all of these,
> including dealing with some of the conflicts (especially with
> traditional single-letter options) would be a huge undertaking.

It would also be impossible to do so without breaking existing scripts.
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John Hasler 
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