Why do people screw around with basic command options?

[jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz)]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 04:21:01PM -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> I just noticed a bunch of my scripts, many that I've had in production
> for over 20 years, are suddenly breaking. It turns out some idiot
> decided it would be a good idea to remove the "+" option from sort(1),
> which tells it which field to sort on.
> 
> sort(1) still works fine on my older systems, but the ones I've kept
> up to date with yum are now in need of a lot of pointless unscheduled
> maintenance.

IIRC GNU is m,aking an effort to make all the command line option
compliant w/one of the POSIX standards. They broke tail as well.
> 
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