Hi, > Ahh...good! I don't understand the difficulty in understanding this > question. Anyways, let me break it up in to simpler sentences as > you've asked for. Is it possible that we make the terminal, by > default, display the output column names [like PID MEM etc] when you > run a command [and that could be any command]. > > For example: ls -lh returns an output without the column names. I > would want to see if there is a way to display the column names like > PERMS, OWNER, GROUP, FILENAME, SIZE etc by default.
I would like to believe that bash/shell is a simple means to run commands that do your job. There is absolutely no reason why bash/shell has to understand the outputs or interpret them for you. I just might do iceweasel from bash. how is it supposed to categorize all those gtk warning messages i might be getting? Or even know they are warnings in the first place. I think we should understand what to expect before looking for it. On the other hand, its a better idea to see if the individual commands have such options. I am sure many commands do. Or take their code and edit that portion in. Its probably not worth trying a global wrapper script to interpret all the commands that are already there and will be added. What I still don't get is why would you need bash/shell to do this for you? > Abishek Goda _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
