Doesn't that run contrary to the UNIX notion of trying to create small tools which link each other's inputs/outputs instead of monolithic apps with dozens of options? It doesn't seem that dog brings anything particularly new to the table...
On Dec 4, 2005, at 7:38 PM, Scott Granneman wrote: > have you guys heard of dog? it's a much better cat! (which isn't > surprising, since dogs ARE better than cats) > > on K/Ubuntu: > > sudo apt-get install dog > > here's how i describe it in the book i'm writing now: > > For a vastly better cat, check out dog. Instead of local files, you > can use dog to view the HTML source of web pages on stdout, or just a > list of images or links on the specified web pages. The dog command > will convert all characters to lower-case, or vice versa, will convert > line endings to Mac OS, DOS, or Unix, and will even allow you to > specify a range of characters to output (lines 5-25, for instace). Not > to mention, the man page for dog is one of the funniest ever. This is > one dog that knows a lot of new tricks! > > to find out what i'm talking about, try: > > man dog > > this is VERY cool. > > scott |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
