This is fairly amusing. As you may know, I frequently note that at the Linux, etc. command line level, we still mostly use the same UNIX-derived commands and tools that date back to UNIX Version 6 and earlier of many decades ago. It is frequently argued that this is because Ken, Dennis, and the rest of the Bell Labs gang got these right in the first place.
In any case, here is a clip from 1985's "The Computer Chronicles" -- so almost 40 years ago -- explaining how UNIX commands like "ls" were too complicated and would be rapidly replaced with DOS-like command line tools.
Or, uh, as it turned out ... NOT! -L
@lauren
Why is there a photo of cat attached to this post, and why is it captioned "ls -l"? :marseysuspicious:
Why is there a photo of cat attached to this post, and why is it captioned "ls -l"? :marseysuspicious:
@m0xEE Anyone care to explain it for them? My replies on such are so monotonous.
@robryk @m0xEE Well, the clip provides that clue.