There is no consistancy in unix tooling, the best you can hope for is a good man page, if you are talking about how they all have dashes in front of the flags... I don't see how that helps.
But you are right about the power of unix being that it is a very expressive system exposed in a fairly simple syntax.
We have fallen far from the tree. But I think the real genius of the original unix was in what it did not do. there was a real desire to keep it a fun simple usable system. and it was and still is, as is proven by it's huge popularity and influence even today 50 years later.
But you are right about the power of unix being that it is a very expressive system exposed in a fairly simple syntax.
We have fallen far from the tree. But I think the real genius of the original unix was in what it did not do. there was a real desire to keep it a fun simple usable system. and it was and still is, as is proven by it's huge popularity and influence even today 50 years later.