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Unix Philosophy with an Example
The Unix philosophy is a set of software development concepts and norms which have shaped the way modern software is built.
Initiated in the late 60s and established over time by developers of Unix-like operating systems, the Unix philosophy brought the concepts of modularity and reusability into software engineering best practices.
Douglas McIlroy summarized the Unix philosophy as follows:
- Write programs that do one thing and do it well.
- Write programs to work together.
- Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.
Let’s briefly introduce command-line filters and pipelines in order to see how these rules apply within the most popular operating systems.
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