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Basics of the Unix Philosophy
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Unix as a tool forge
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| | Wikipedia1 cites a few different sources on what "Unix Philosophy" is. Peter Salus summarizes it as: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. That second bullet point is my favorite: making composable programs rather than monolithic systems. In this way, Unix is designed to be a forge for easily building new tools. The first rule-writing programs that do one thing well-is largely a means...
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Deconstructing the "Unix philosophy"
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| | Composing smaller pieces into a great whole is a powerful design technique.
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Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century - Brazil's Blog
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| JSON output must become the norm for application pipelining. Until then, jc can help.