Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "The Lack Of Consistency With The Linux Terminal" video.

  1. The cat and ls utilities are from the time Jesus used Unix, so staying consistent with their (very old) options and formats was a thing. The --help was because the multiletter options came later, and didn't conflict with the original options. ls has -h, but it isn't help. Cat does not have -h. Why not just "modernize" the ls and cat commands? yea, possible for cat. You don't want to change ls options, its been around forever and probably built into a lot of programs. The --help standard makes sense, its a more modern option format, and Linux/GNU has been trying to normalize the options, starting with more readable multicharacter options. Since the single character options would make Unix/Linux old timers scream if you removed them, that's not an "option" he he. Command line mode is for programmers. Programmers bathe in obscurity and seem to really enjoy it. Its about job security and a general feeling of superiority. Whaddya gonna do?
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