-1 here too: - mv and cp are 'every-day' kind of tools (more like every 5 seconds); grep and find are (at least for me) 'oh crap I lost something' edge-case tools
- if we're going to go full steam ahead to a later topic in the shell, I'd prioritize scripts and for loops - the stuff that lets you chug along overnight on your analysis is the big prize in the shell. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Greg Wilson < [email protected]> wrote: > I'm -1: > > - 'rm', 'mv', and 'cp' correspond to operations they're familiar with from > GUIs > > - the syntax of 'find' is truly awful... > > - ...and 'grep' isn't much better > > Thx, > G > > > On 2015-05-28 8:37 PM, Ivan Gonzalez wrote: > >> Hmm, it may be interesting. In my experience, people don't really get the >> benefits of the command line interface with cp, rm et al, so maybe showing >> first something they can't do (easily) using the graphical interface is >> worthy. >> >> Ivan >> >> El 28/05/2015, a las 20:22, Raniere Silva <[email protected]> >> escribió: >> >> Hi all, >>> >>> what do you think of teach grep and find before rm, mv and cp? >>> >>> From my experience, students really like discovery grep and find >>> but sometimes we don't cover it due time constrains. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Raniere >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> >>> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >> > > -- > Dr. Greg Wilson | [email protected] > Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > -- Best Regards, Bill Mills Community Manager Mozilla Science Lab
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