On Thursday 21 March 2002 22:12 pm, Diane Holt wrote: ... > but all in all, I'd say it's not so much things > Make does that you like, but what the *nix shell does. :)
basically, yeah - it makes a nice front-end for shell code. Few things are as graceful as shell code :). Windows-using co-workers often ask why i'm such an avid shell user. i can only point them to examples like this: tar cf - cvsroot/* ssh stephan@poe 'cat | gzip -9 -c > cvsroot.$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz' That's one command line using 5 different tools (tar, ssh, cat, gzip and data) used to perform one complex command across two different systems. ----- stephan Generic Universal Computer Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.einsurance.de Office: +49 (89) �552 92 862 Handy: �+49 (179) 211 97 67 Student: "Master, you must teach me the way of liberation!" Master: "Tell me who it is that binds you." Student: "No one binds me!" Master: "Then why do you seek liberation?" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
