The Wanderer scripsit: > (Unrelated: wouldn't that technically be "an FAQ"? I've certainly never > heard the term pronounced to rhyme with "lack", but invariably as the > individual letters...)
Both pronunciations are in use (see http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/FAQ.html ) and both "a FAQ" and "an FAQ" are found. > The answer as I understand it would be something along the lines of > "because find is orthogonal to rm and the output of a given program's > --help should be concerned only with that program", and indeed there may > be no better answer available. However, that does leave the fact that > your typical user will not have any better idea of where to look for > help with a program than its own built-in help - and indeed some of them > may not even get that far. This is a problem with the shell framework generally. There is no up-to-date resource on how to use the coreutils and their relatives in cooperation. The knowledge is passed chiefly through oral tradition and through older books, and is IMHO in some danger of being lost, which would be a Bad Thing, as it provides a style of programming very different from typical monolithic frameworks. -- In politics, obedience and support John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> are the same thing. --Hannah Arendt http://www.ccil.org/~cowan _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
