Anyone who has been using UNIX at the shell prompt for a time has unwittingly become acquainted with how UNIX commands work. Some of the most frequently used commands—ls(1), mv(1), cp(1), rm(1), and ln(1), for example—use the same general command-line conventions.
This level of consistency is a result of a convention being adopted by UNIX developers and a library mechanism to make it easy to adhere to. In this chapter, you will look at
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