[TUHS] Command line options and complexity

Ken Thompson ken at google.com
Thu Mar 5 14:17:26 AEST 2020


do i get a prize:

ls -tj
/bin/ls: illegal option -- j
usage: ls [-ABCFGHLOPRSTUWabcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 6:06 PM Kurt H Maier <khm at sciops.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 11:17:46AM -0500, John P. Linderman wrote:
> > I think that was a useful option, but the irony of Rob
> > adding an option to "tac" was hard to overlook.
>
> tac came back from Jersey waving flags?
>
> khm
>
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