On Monday 05 December 2005 10:41 am, AgentM wrote: > 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?
frankly, who gives a flying you know what? it works, & it works well. > It doesn't seem that dog > brings anything particularly new to the table... i think i listed several things, & the man pg has others. if you don't like it, super. don't use it. but i like it, & i'm sure others will find it interesting. if you don't, oh well. scott > 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/ -- R. Scott Granneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications: http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book on Firefox: Don't Click on the Blue E! Info at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bluee/ Read the Open Source Blog: http://opensource.weblogsinc.com Join GranneNotes! Information at www.granneman.com "When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway." ---Clyde B. Aster _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
