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		flukus on March 3, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy > You could say the same about "mv". Move what? Files? File names? File parts? Users? Machines? Screens? Files, the base type that's consistent across all the basic commands (AFAIK).

int_19h on March 3, 2017 [–]

It depends on what you mean by "basic command". There are plenty which take arguments that aren't files - chown, chgrp and su, for example.

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