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What's GNU in Old Utilities

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Linux Magazine; By Jerry Peek 		Mail this story
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Utility programs like cp have new features you may not have seen. Here’s the third in a series about some of the handiest. Back in Unix Version 7, cp, mv, and ln had no options: they simply copied, renamed, or linked one or more files to a destination. Now, GNU cp has more than twenty options, and mv and ln aren’t far behind. Is this feature creep or innovation?

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purplewizard ·
I would say no it isn't feature creep as long as it doesn't interfere with the basic task staying as simple as it was. If I have to do extra to the most basic then it is a problem.

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