[svlug] -who option

Sarah Newman newmans at sonic.net
Sat Mar 2 16:03:49 PST 2019


On 3/2/19 3:31 PM, Mehma Sarja wrote:
> 
>> This information is already out there.
>>
>> history of grep:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk
>>
>> history of ls:
>> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue48/fischer.html
>>
>> history of cat:
>> http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf
>>
>> And so on. (Computer history is a hobby of mine, although
>> https://landley.net/history/mirror is sadly out of date...)
> 
> That’s part of my point. The information is scattered. Although if the community does not passionately back the -who idea, it will become just another place people stash info creating more scatter.

Any reason why wikipedia doesn't work? For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ls#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Unix)#History

--Sarah



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