[cyberdelica]

> Definitely not confusing!

Heh, well... I never said it wasn’t confusing. I agree with you on the above.

If the Unix Philosophy was being properly followed, with your ls example, as a case in point, I would use:

    ls | tac | column

Now, that’s not even considering the ridiculousness of the naming of the “tac” command, which would ideally be renamed “rev” - with rev ideally being expanded, to to ALL reversals, not just character based, per line.

The sort of nonsense above, is why I started writing my own core utils and OS from scratch - which I suppose is a sort of suckless meme, by now.

POSIX, is both a blessing, and a curse.