Unix Philosophy

Do One Thing And Do It Well 1

Design small, simple but sharp tools with well-contained functionality. They don’t need to do more or less than what they claimed to do (similar to 202206301938). Let them accept one universal format - the text stream. And make these programs work together.

In Unix, almost all things, such as users, passwords, networking configuration, are configured through and/or kept in plain text.

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By Doug Mcllroy
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