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I hate systems that don't have a nice handy collections of GNU utils
installed. Quite frankly why anyone would want to ship inferior
alternatives is completely beyond me.
Look, I'm not asking for world peace, cold fusion, or a working Perl 6
compiler, I just want to get a listing of my files in colour. It's not
rocket science! Yes Damnit! I want my directory listings in colour. I
want to be able to get a tree of my processes by typing 'ps -faux'. I
want to get a tree of my filesystem by typing, 'tree'. How hard can this
be?
FreeBSD! You suck! You ship with crap versions of these utilities.
Apple! You suck more for copying them!
Yes, I know I shouldn't be using non-portable options. Bite me. I don't
care, I just want it to work. Yes know I can install GNU versions on
most systems with one command. But they're not installed by default
are they? I'm lazy, and yes, I maintain that this is a virtue.
Besides, it's my hate and I'll rant if I want to.
GAH!
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use strict;
use warnings;
print q{Mark Fowler, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx, http://twoshortplanks.com/};
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