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Re:Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users by frutiger on Saturday October 03, 2020 @12:18AM (#24669499)
I am the biggest fan of Unix commandline tools but I think you vastly overestimate how universal unix pipes are. For example, if I asked you to guess (no reading man pages or trying commands out!) how `find(1)` interprets input supplied to `stdin`, what would your guess be?

Comparing your guess with what you learn from the man pages is an indication of how inconsistent most of the classic Unix tools are.

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Re:Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users by tonyarkles on Saturday October 03, 2020 @12:16PM (#24672975)
> how `find(1)` interprets input supplied to `stdin`, what would your guess be?

I'm on OS X here, and I can't find any info about this at all in the man pages! I'd never really thought much about it; usually find is the very start of the pipeline for me. I have run into the -print0 option before though when passing the output into xargs :)

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