On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 09:49:55AM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 08:31:17AM +0000, Steven Hartland wrote:
> > Personally I disagree, chances of people finding that option in dd
> > is slim, a dedicated trim utility makes much more sense to me. Sure
> > have both that's cool but keep the trim would be my vote.
Having both is OK when there's no code duplication involved (e.g. like
hd(1) being a handy hardlink to hexdump(1)), yet again...
> I also like the idea of a simple dedicated tool with an obvious name.
... "Obvious" names can cut both ways. They can be too generic and thus
create a clash in the future. They can be ambiguous ("trim" can just as
easily be a tool that excessive whitespace from text files).
./danfe
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