by the way, `fd` is a relatively new tool that is way better than `find`, I recommend you give it a try if you haven't yet: github.com/sharkdp/fd

I wonder what the first operating system will be that includes modern tools in its standard distribution? I mean tools like `jq`, `bat`, `ripgrep`, `trurl`

the command line is better than ever with modern tools installed, but you can't distribute anything using them because every operating system is stuck decades in the past

I wonder if it would make sense to come out with a baseline distribution of tools available for every platform?

Then you could distribute commands that rely on them and tell your users that it depends on "CLI tools version 3.x" or something like that

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@llimllib I like a lot of the cli utilities which have come out of the rust age. Someone once said "POSIX should be replaced when the time is right". It would be nice to have independent implementations and a standard for which flags can be assumed to be supported so a single vendor doesn't have all the power.

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