But that argument is an argument against pretty much all command-line flags. Rob Pike argues `ls` shouldn’t have an option to split the output into columns, you should pipe ls into a column-splitting program.
So the pure version of that philosophy is long-gone. It makes this current effort seem rather arbitrary and meaningless.
=> http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/ UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful
But that argument is an argument against pretty much all command-line flags. Rob Pike argues `ls` shouldn’t have an option to split the output into columns, you should pipe ls into a column-splitting program.
So the pure version of that philosophy is long-gone. It makes this current effort seem rather arbitrary and meaningless.