Stupid UNIX command syntax (Re: Stupidest UNIX Command)

[Dan Kogai]

In article <7Z739XAxds13 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <747 at mwtech.UUCP> martin at mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes
>about an innofensive program called "uniq".
>> But there is something that allways annoys me. If you
>> don't know right now, take a look at the manual.
>> Maybe this will pay some day ....
>
>You mean, the way if you have files named a and b, and you say "uniq ?",
>it will trash "b"? Indent does it too. It's really a sick idea.
>
	But at least indent makes backup!  Uniq just kills it.  But it's
not hard to implement uniq an make it safe.  Well, I don't use uniq as
often as grep|sed and never killed file by that...

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