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23 .TL
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24 Why the Unix Philosophy matters
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25 .AU
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26 markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
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29 This paper discusses the importance of the Unix Philosophy in software design.
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30 Today, few software designers are aware of these concepts,
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31 and thus most modern software is limited and does not make use of software leverage.
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32 Knowing and following the tenets of the Unix Philosophy makes software more valuable.
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39 This paper was prepared for the seminar ``Software Analysis'' at University Ulm.
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40 Mentor was professor Schweiggert. 2010-02-05
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42 You may get this document from my website
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46 .NH 1
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47 Introduction
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48 .LP
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49 Building a software is a process from an idea of the purpose of the software
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50 to its release.
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51 No matter \fIhow\fP the process is run, two things are common:
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52 the initial idea and the release.
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53 The process inbetween can be of any shape.
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54 The the maintainance work after the release is ignored for the moment.
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56 The process of building splits mainly in two parts:
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57 the planning of what and how to build, and implementing the plan by writing code.
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58 This paper focuses on the planning part \(en the designing of the software.
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59 .PP
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60 Software design is the plan of how the internals and externals of the software should look like,
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61 based on the requirements.
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62 This paper discusses the recommendations of the Unix Philosphy about software design.
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63 .PP
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64 The here discussed ideas can get applied by any development process.
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65 The Unix Philosphy does recommend how the software development process should look like,
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66 but this shall not be of matter here.
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67 Similar, the question of how to write the code is out of focus.
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68 .PP
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69 The name ``Unix Philosophy'' was already mentioned several times, but it was not explained yet.
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70 The Unix Philosophy is the essence of how the Unix operating system and its toolchest was designed.
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71 It is no limited set of rules, but what people see to be common to typical Unix software.
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72 Several people stated their view on the Unix Philosophy.
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73 Best known are:
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74 .IP \(bu
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75 Doug McIlroy's summary: ``Write programs that do one thing and do it well.''
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76 .[
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77 %A M. D. McIlroy
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78 %A E. N. Pinson
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79 %A B. A. Taque
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80 %T UNIX Time-Sharing System Forward
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81 %J The Bell System Technical Journal
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82 %D 1978
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83 %V 57
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84 %N 6
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85 %P 1902
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86 .]
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87 .IP \(bu
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88 Mike Gancarz' book ``The UNIX Philosophy''.
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89 .[
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90 %A Mike Gancarz
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91 %T The UNIX Philosophy
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92 %D 1995
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93 %I Digital Press
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95 .IP \(bu
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96 Eric S. Raymond's book ``The Art of UNIX Programming''.
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97 .[
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98 %A Eric S. Raymond
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99 %T The Art of UNIX Programming
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100 %D 2003
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101 %I Addison-Wesley
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102 %O .CW \s-1http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/
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105 These different views on the Unix Philosophy have much in common.
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106 Especially, the main concepts are similar for all of them.
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107 But there are also points on which they differ.
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108 This only underlines what the Unix Philosophy is:
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109 A retrospective view on the main concepts of Unix software;
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110 especially those that were sucessful and unique to Unix.
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111 .PP
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112 Before we will have a look at concrete concepts,
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113 we discuss why software design is important
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114 and what problems bad design introduces.
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117 .NH 1
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118 Importance of software design
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120 Why should we design software at all?
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121 It is general knowledge, that a bad plan is better than no plan.
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122 As stated earlier in this document, the process of building a software
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123 means going from an idea to a release.
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124 The development process tells how to get from the idea to the release.
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125 Software design is the shape of the built software.
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126 This means, that different designs of a software would be different target points to go to.
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127 Thus, the design of a software defines the global direction the development goes.
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128 .PP
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129 It is not enough that the released software offers all requested functionality.
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130 It is a misbelief that only function matters.
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131 Building a software the first time is only a small part of the overall work.
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132 The larger part begins when the software is released for the first time
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133 \(en maintainance and extending work..
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134 This part soon covers more time than the time which was needed to build the software the first time.
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135 .\" cf. brooks?
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136 .PP
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137 The extendability and maitainability of a software highly depends on its design.
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138 Good design eases these tasks much.
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139 Bad design, in contrast, requires much more effort for maintaining and
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140 extending the software.
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141 Developers should, for their own best, have maintainability and extendability in mind
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142 when they design the software.
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143 .PP
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144 Users of the software, in contrast, do not care about maintainability and extendability,
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145 at least not directly.
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146 They care about usability and flexibility.
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147 They want the software to directly solve their problems.
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148 They want to be able to to use all its functions if they learned a few of them.
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149 They want to use the software for similar tasks.
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150 Software is successful if users enjoy using it.
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151 Good software design can offer great flexibility and usability.
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152 .PP
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153 Good design matters for developers \fIand\fP for users.
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154 Hence both groups should care about good software design.
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155 Bad design limits the software in some way.
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156 It may still provide all requested function, but it will have worse quality,
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157 and thus require more work effort for developers or frustrate users.
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158 .PP
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159 Good software design is to the implementation like data structures are to algorithms
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160 \(en if you get the former right, then you do not need to care about the latter,
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161 it will simply go the right way.
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162 .\" cf. ??? ``good data, bad algos''
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167 .NH 1
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168 The Unix Philosophy
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171 This chapter explains the philosophy and shows concrete examples of its application.
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177 Knowledge of using the Unix shell is assumed.
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178 .PP
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179 Counting the number of files in the current directory:
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180 .DS
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181 .CW
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182 ls | wc -l
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183 .DE
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184 The
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185 .CW ls
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186 command lists all files in the current directory, one per line,
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187 and
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188 .CW "wc -l
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189 counts how many lines they are.
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190 .PP
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191 Counting all files that do not contain ``foo'' in their name:
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193 .CW
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194 ls | grep -v foo | wc -l
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195 .DE
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196 Here, the list of files is filtered by
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197 .CW grep
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198 to remove all that contain ``foo''.
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199 The rest is the same as in the previous example.
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200 .PP
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201 Finding the five largest entries in the current directory.
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204 du -s * | sort -nr | sed 5q
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206 .CW "du -s *
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207 returns the recursively summed sizes of all files
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208 -- no matter if they are regular files or directories.
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209 .CW "sort -nr
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211 Finally,
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212 .CW "sed 5q
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214 .PP
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215 The presented command lines are examples of what Unix people would use
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216 to get the desired output.
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217 There are also other ways to get the same output.
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218 It's a user's decision which way to go.
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223 The examples show that a lot of tasks on a Unix system
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224 are accomplished by combining several small programs.
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225 The connection between the single programs is denoted by the pipe operator `|'.
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226 .PP
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227 Pipes, and their extensive and easy use, are one of the great
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228 achievements of the Unix system.
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229 Pipes between programs have been possible in earlier operating systems,
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230 but it has never been a so central part of the concept.
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231 When, in the early seventies, Doug McIlroy introduced pipes for the
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232 Unix system,
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233 ``it was this concept and notation for linking several programs together
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234 that transformed Unix from a basic file-sharing system to an entirely new way of computing.''
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235 .[
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236 %T Unix: An Oral History
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239 .PP
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240 Being able to specify pipelines in an easy way is,
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241 however, not enough by itself.
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242 It is only one half.
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243 The other is the design of the programs that are used in the pipeline.
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244 They have to be of an external shape that allows them to be be used in such a way.
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246 .SH
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247 Interface architecture
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248 .LP
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249 Unix is, first of all, simple: Everything is a file.
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250 Files are sequences of bytes, without any special structure.
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251 Programs should be filters, which read a stream of bytes from ``standard input'' (stdin)
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252 and write a stream of bytes to ``standard output'' (stdout).
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253 .PP
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254 If our files \fIare\fP sequences of bytes,
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255 and our programs \fIare\fP filters on byte streams,
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256 then there is exactly one standardized interface.
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257 Thus it is possible to combine them in any desired way.
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258 .PP
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259 Even a handful of small programs will yield a large set of combinations,
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260 and thus a large set of different functions.
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261 This is leverage!
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262 .PP
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263 If the programs are orthogonal to each other \(en the best case \(en
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264 then the set of different functions is greatest.
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265 .PP
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266 Now, the Unix toolchest is a set of small programs that
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267 are filters on byte streams.
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268 They are to a large extend unrelated in their function.
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269 Hence, the Unix toolchest provides a large set of functions
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270 that can be accessed by combining the programs in the desired way.
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272 .SH
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273 Advantages of toolchests
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274 .LP
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275 A toolchest is a set of tools.
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276 Instead of having one big tool for all tasks, one has many small tools,
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277 each for one task.
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278 Difficult tasks are solved by combining several of the small, simple tools.
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279 .PP
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280 It is easier and less error-prone to write small programs.
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281 It is also easier and less error-prone to write a large set of small programs,
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282 than to write one large program with all the functionality included.
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283 If the small programs are combinable, then they offer even a larger set
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284 of functions than the single large program.
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285 Hence, one gets two advantages out of writing small, combinable programs.
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286 .PP
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287 There are two drawbacks of the toolchest approach.
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288 First, one simple, standardized, unidirectional Interface has to be sufficient.
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289 If one feels the need for more ``logic'' than a stream of bytes,
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290 then a different approach might be of need, or, more likely,
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291 he just did not came to a design where a stream of bytes is sufficient.
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292 The other drawback of a toolchest affects the users.
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293 A toolchest is often more difficult to use for novices.
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294 It is neccessary to become familiar with each of the tools,
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295 to be able to use the right one in a given situation.
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296 Additinally, one needs to combine the tools in a senseful way on its own.
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297 This is like a sharp knive \(en it is a powerful tool in the hand of a master,
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298 but of no good value in the hand of an unskilled.
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299 .PP
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300 Luckily, the second drawback can be solved easily by adding wrappers around the single tools.
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301 Novice users do not need to learn several tools if a professional wraps
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302 the single commands into a single script.
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303 Note that the wrapper script still calls the small tools;
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304 the wrapper script is just like a skin around.
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305 No complexity is added this way.
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306 .PP
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307 A wrapper script for finding the five largest entries in the current directory
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308 could look like this:
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309 .DS
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310 .CW
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311 #!/bin/sh
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312 du -s * | sort -nr | sed 5q
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313 .DE
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314 The script itself is just a text file that calls the command line
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315 a professional user would type in directly.
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325 standalone vs. tool chain
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326 .LP
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327 software leverage
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328 .LP
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329 possiblities
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332 Results
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334 The unix phil is an answer to the sw design question
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335 .LP
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336 tool chains empower the uses of sw
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342 History
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343 .LP
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344 MH, nmh.
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345 They are old.
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347 .NH 2
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348 Contrasts to similar sw
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349 .LP
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350 vs. Thunderbird, mutt, mailx, pine
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351 .LP
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352 flexibility, no redundancy, use the shell
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353
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354 .NH 2
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355 Gains of the design
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356 .LP
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357
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358 .NH 2
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359 Problems
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360 .LP
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361
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362 .NH 1
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363 Case study: uzbl
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364
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365 .NH 2
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366 History
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367 .LP
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368 uzbl is young
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369
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370 .NH 2
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371 Contrasts to similar sw
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372 .LP
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373 like with nmh
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374 .LP
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375 addons, plugins, modules
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376
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377 .NH 2
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378 Gains of the design
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379 .LP
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380
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381 .NH 2
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382 Problems
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383 .LP
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384 broken web
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385
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386 .NH 1
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387 Final thoughts
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388
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389 .NH 2
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390 Quick summary
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391 .LP
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392 good design
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393 .LP
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394 unix phil
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395 .LP
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396 case studies
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397
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398 .NH 2
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399 Why people should choose
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400 .LP
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401 Make the right choice!
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402
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403 .nr PI .5i
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404 .rm ]<
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405 .de ]<
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406 .LP
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407 .de FP
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408 .IP \\\\$1.
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409 \\..
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410 .rm FS FE
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411 ..
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412 .SH
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413 References
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414 .[
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415 $LIST$
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416 .]
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417 .wh -1p