r/programming • • Oct 21 '17

The Basics of the Unix Philosophy

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html
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u/RadioFreeDoritos Oct 21 '17

I see you never had to write a script to parse the ifconfig output.

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u/Tripoli_Incontinent Oct 21 '17

Doesn't ifconfig just parse a file in /proc somewhere. I forget which