coreutilsの偉大なる魔法使いたち

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可笑しいです。少女が魔法少女に変身すると、筋肉質の男になります。敵のモナ猫も気色悪くて面白いです。

コマンドを深く使っていくと、コマンドだけでなく、周辺知識についても勉強したくなります。一つ一つのコマンドは誰が作って、どのようにして生まれたのかを知れば、勉強に拍車がかかって、さらに詳しくなるに違いありません。
今回は、coreutilsのコマンド群のプログラマーたちを確認してみます。

takk@deb9:~/src/coreutils-8.26$ cat AUTHORS
Here are the names of the programs in this package,
each followed by the name(s) of its author(s).

arch: David MacKenzie, Karel Zak
b2sum: Padraig Brady, Samuel Neves
base32: Simon Josefsson
base64: Simon Josefsson
basename: David MacKenzie
cat: Torbjorn Granlund, Richard M. Stallman
chcon: Russell Coker, Jim Meyering
chgrp: David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering
chmod: David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering
chown: David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering
chroot: Roland McGrath
cksum: Q. Frank Xia
comm: Richard M. Stallman, David MacKenzie
coreutils: Alex Deymo
cp: Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering
csplit: Stuart Kemp, David MacKenzie
cut: David M. Ihnat, David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering
date: David MacKenzie
dd: Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Stuart Kemp
df: Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert
dir: Richard M. Stallman, David MacKenzie
dircolors: H. Peter Anvin
dirname: David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering
du: Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert, Jim Meyering
echo: Brian Fox, Chet Ramey
env: Richard Mlynarik, David MacKenzie
expand: David MacKenzie
expr: Mike Parker, James Youngman, Paul Eggert
factor: Paul Rubin, Torbjorn Granlund, Niels Moller
false: Jim Meyering
fmt: Ross Paterson
fold: David MacKenzie
ginstall: David MacKenzie
groups: David MacKenzie, James Youngman
head: David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering
hostid: Jim Meyering
hostname: Jim Meyering
id: Arnold Robbins, David MacKenzie
join: Mike Haertel
kill: Paul Eggert
link: Michael Stone
ln: Mike Parker, David MacKenzie
logname: FIXME: unknown
ls: Richard M. Stallman, David MacKenzie
md5sum: Ulrich Drepper, Scott Miller, David Madore
mkdir: David MacKenzie
mkfifo: David MacKenzie
mknod: David MacKenzie
mktemp: Jim Meyering, Eric Blake
mv: Mike Parker, David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering
nice: David MacKenzie
nl: Scott Bartram, David MacKenzie
nohup: Jim Meyering
nproc: Giuseppe Scrivano
numfmt: Assaf Gordon
od: Jim Meyering
paste: David M. Ihnat, David MacKenzie
pathchk: Paul Eggert, David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering
pinky: Joseph Arceneaux, David MacKenzie, Kaveh Ghazi
pr: Pete TerMaat, Roland Huebner
printenv: David MacKenzie, Richard Mlynarik
printf: David MacKenzie
ptx: Francois Pinard
pwd: Jim Meyering
readlink: Dmitry V. Levin
realpath: Padraig Brady
rm: Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Richard M. Stallman, Jim Meyering
rmdir: David MacKenzie
runcon: Russell Coker
seq: Ulrich Drepper
sha1sum: Ulrich Drepper, Scott Miller, David Madore
sha224sum: Ulrich Drepper, Scott Miller, David Madore
sha256sum: Ulrich Drepper, Scott Miller, David Madore
sha384sum: Ulrich Drepper, Scott Miller, David Madore
sha512sum: Ulrich Drepper, Scott Miller, David Madore
shred: Colin Plumb
shuf: Paul Eggert
sleep: Jim Meyering, Paul Eggert
sort: Mike Haertel, Paul Eggert
split: Torbjorn Granlund, Richard M. Stallman
stat: Michael Meskes
stdbuf: Padraig Brady
stty: David MacKenzie
sum: Kayvan Aghaiepour, David MacKenzie
sync: Jim Meyering, Giuseppe Scrivano
tac: Jay Lepreau, David MacKenzie
tail: Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Ian Lance Taylor, Jim Meyering
tee: Mike Parker, Richard M. Stallman, David MacKenzie
test: Kevin Braunsdorf, Matthew Bradburn
timeout: Padraig Brady
touch: Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, Randy Smith
tr: Jim Meyering
true: Jim Meyering
truncate: Padraig Brady
tsort: Mark Kettenis
tty: David MacKenzie
uname: David MacKenzie
unexpand: David MacKenzie
uniq: Richard M. Stallman, David MacKenzie
unlink: Michael Stone
uptime: Joseph Arceneaux, David MacKenzie, Kaveh Ghazi
users: Joseph Arceneaux, David MacKenzie
vdir: Richard M. Stallman, David MacKenzie
wc: Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie
who: Joseph Arceneaux, David MacKenzie, Michael Stone
whoami: Richard Mlynarik
yes: David MacKenzie

;; Local Variables:
;; coding: utf-8
;; End:
takk@deb9:~/src/coreutils-8.26$ 

David MacKenzieさんが多いですねえ。
GNU’s Who に、どんな人か書いてありました。
(https://www.gnu.org/people/people.html)

~GNU’s Whoから引用~
David MacKenzie

Wrote or polished many of the GNU core utilities and their documentation. He was the principal designer and author of Autoconf, and prototyped Automake. He has worked for the FSF and Cygnus in the past. After creating scalable web server infrastructure for UUNET, he is currently at a startup and continues contributing to free software from time to time.

普段からcoreutilsを使ってる私は、ずっとマッケンジーさんのお世話なってたんですねえ。

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