[colug-432] The UNIX Philosophy

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Tue Aug 9 19:16:52 EDT 2011


On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 10:26:16 -0400, Eric Floehr <eric at intellovations.com> wrote:

> Wow, TIL about the "column" command.  BSD/GNU/Linux continues to impress :-).

Mike Gancarz wrote a good book about this. 

   https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Mike_Gancarz:_The_UNIX_Philosophy

It's a fun read. You'll recognize much. An owner of a copy 
thought I should read it and lent it to me. He was right. 
There is a newer book: "Linux and the Unix Philosophy" 
I don't know how it compares to the original. 



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