Wow! I thought there were a lot of console shells when I took a look at Coherent 3.2 back in the late 80's. I know about sh, ksh, csh, bash (much newer), ash... In fact, MINIX 2.0 uses ash if you log in as bin, which I really liked. I was never any good with it, but I liked it!On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 02:37, christopher neitzert wrote:it will show a list of each application beginning with a. (provided you are using a decent shell -- if not use bash or tcsh) (take that mark!)Hey, I use bash! Amber and Nathan haven't quite talked me over to zsh just yet.
I used the man pages a lot in MINIX and Coherent... don't know why that didn't dawn on me here... Must be getting old... D'OH! <g>If that doesnt tell you enough then you can type man $app man will tell you everything there is to know.
Yeah! You can use double redirection, too. I once helped write a DOS program in C for a blind guy so what he typed and what the interpreter returned (including the std. err. handler) were all spoken. I think it used the Covox "Speach Thing." I had to interface with the dirver for it... been a long time ago! We used double redirection to pass the command interpreter through the C program (and into the Covox driver) and again through the std. err. handler. I learned that from what little I know of ksh.It may seem like alot to learn, yet like windoze and DoS command line, once you use it a few times its difficult to loose.That it is. But you are building a "toolbelt" by learning all the funky UNIX commands too. Remember, you can stack commands, pipe, redirect, and end up with a new tool.
Thanks, for the great suggestions!Mark
-Gary
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