> I love the Unix philosophy of making specific, lightweight tools that 
> interoperate, rather than gargantuan monolithic beasts that do 
> everything rather poorly.

See, now, personally I hate that. It annoys the hell out of me that the 
Unix way is to use 50,000 tiny tools with all have far too many 
backwards compatibility modes, bugs and "features".

["This makes it read from a file. Unless the file is named '-', in which 
case it reads from stdin." OK, so how do I make it read from a file 
that's actually named '-' then? And other surprising ad-hoc behaviours...]

But then, I guess that's just my opinion.

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