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> Fluency with permissions is fundamental knowledge for a competent unix operator.

This has precisely nothing to do with whether ls colors its output or not.

> A clear advantages to BSD is that tooling man pages are produced by a single team.

They're still too short to really introduce any tool complex enough to need documentation.

> In addition, tools tend to do one and only one thing, which promotes use of pipes and scripts rather than obscure tool features.

BSD has find. I know it does.



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