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Re:Exa Is Deprecated by cb321 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @08:27AM (#37417933)
> I absolutely love the trend of rewriting classic Unix utilities

This was actually a big draw of GNU implementations in the mid-to-late 1980s vs. the "then classics" of the mid-to-late-1970s. Before the dominance of Linux / OSX, people on SunOS / Ultrix / HP-UX / Irix / AIX / *BSD would often quickly install those more featureful GNU utilities. I imagine AIX/*BSD people still do.

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Re:Exa Is Deprecated by dividedbyzero on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:21AM (#37418524)
> I imagine AIX/*BSD people still do.

Quite true for many in the macOS subset of BSD

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Re:Exa Is Deprecated by anthk on Thursday September 07, 2023 @04:00PM (#37424779)
exa is not a rewrite. GNU utilities are an actual replacement.
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