Invisible wrote:
> ad-hoc *mess* of haphazardly interacting command switches that you have 
> to spend 20 minutes studying the manpage to decode the interactions for?

Don't forget that it also changes behavior depending on whether it 
things stdout is a terminal, a different character device, or a file.

> Also: autoconf exists. Need I say more?

And ptys.

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