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Not stupid, just BSD heritage, not GNU. See FreeBSD


Another comment was arguing that anything since POSIX is a "waste of time", presumably including the GNU extensions. (The BSD utilities were the first "user-friendly" alternatives to the original AT&T versions...)




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