Kerry if you want to start a wiki topic (if there isn't one?) on bash
conventions I'm keen to support it with you.
I'm still having troubles learning what the conventions are in unix.
I enjoyed reading about folder conventions the other day.
cheers Don
Nick Rout wrote:
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:27:29 +0000
Kerry Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Those of you who are steeped in Linux often don't seem to be aware how
obscure the jargon is in this area. One of the problems of community based
development, everyone wants a cutesy name for their little utility. (Just
think of yacc and less).
we honestly were all there once. keep at it. there is no way round it
other than sitting at the terminal and trying stuff. You are doing just
fine.
What yacc does is a mystery to me! But note that it has a replacement
called bison - more unix humour LOL.
(By the way the original paging program is more (logically named: hit a
key and you get MORE of the file), its improvement is a program called
less, and theres an even better one called most - the naming is unix
humour more - less - most!
Many commnds were designed for s--l--o--w terminals. ls is shorter than
list. cp is shorter than copy. mv is shorter than move.
Unix philosophy is small commands that do one job well, strung together
to make more powerful commands. Therefore there tend to be a LOT of
commands.)
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