Re: while /usr/bin/read

Barry Margolin wrote:

> why is there a /usr/bin/read command, if it doesn't work?

(Apart from other parts of this thread drifting away to yet
another "/bin/cd is so silly")

I wonder about possible reasons, too,
1) establish some sort of orthogonality?
like in "find . -exec cd -exec [...]"
2) posix repeatedly is misunderstood for going
along with existing practice; is there any prehistory?
Sven Mascheck [ So, 30 März 2008 19:58 ] [ ID #1932365 ]
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