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> Sorry, but that’s kind of a made up definition of “command”. By that definition, gzip is a command on “most” systems, bzip2 on “a lot”, and xz on “some”. And yet they are all entered on the command line.

> And what tools a particular system comes with is pretty much arbitrary. The otherwise ubiquitous curl for example is not part of, e.g., coreutils (which is a rather Linux-specific thing, the BSDs have most of the stuff in there as part of their “base”).

"I wouldn't call it"...

I might be encouraged to give context for my subjective opinion. If youd rather make fun of my perceived ignorance, thats also your prerogative.

Also, BSD is not Linux.



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