[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Jake Hamby (Solid State Jake)]

On Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 11:50:24 AM UTC-8, Jim Jackson wrote:
> On 2023-11-14, Johnny Billquist <b... at softjar.se> wrote: 
> > 
> > With find it don't matter. Even the original is crazy. The one tool 
> > where the Unix paradigm got completely lost...
> I'm baffled by this. 
> 
> find finds stuff in the filesystem that match some conditions. 
> 
> What else does it do?

People say stuff like that because the man pages have grown lengthy compared to 30 years ago, and the standard commands have a lot more switches. On my Ubuntu box, the man page for find is 1324 lines long.

I just checked the man pages for "ls", "dd", and "cp", and they're all still fairly simple. The man page for "more" is 166 lines, but the man page for "less" is 1447 lines. The man page for "man" is 560 lines. And none of these programs are breaking the "Make each program do one thing well" rule. If anything, they're all doing their one thing better than ever.