Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Why not make it, in the best Unix tradition, a single > executable whose action depends on the name it is run as?
That can cause problems in various cases. So much so that it was written into the GNU Coding Standards to be avoided: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/User-Interfaces.html#User-Interfaces Please don't make the behavior of a utility depend on the name used to invoke it. It is useful sometimes to make a link to a utility with a different name, and that should not change what it does. Instead, use a run time option or a compilation switch or both to select among the alternate behaviors. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
