On Sunday 23 August 2009 10:00:05 [email protected] wrote: > > <quote who="Marghanita da Cruz"> > > > >> Can you throw light on the demise of the "unix shell"? > > > > Demise?! :-) > > I have to agree with Jeff: the only places I have really seen the shell > vanish it has been moving — albeit painfully slowly at times — to being > replaced by a more powerful programming model, universal scripting. > > For example, much of the traditional Unix shell use on MacOS has vanished, > replaced by OSA and AppleScript, or by Automator. In KDE they are > gradually crawling towards more ubiquitous "desktop wide" scripting. I > presume that GNOME is doing more or less the same.
My daughter created the web page for her business on her Mac. It is hosted on my server. After a morning of her trying to sync the two with the myriad of buy-this-and-all-your-woes-are-over, on the phone I talked her through a Terminal, rsync with ssh. Gobsmacked ! now she just uses it all the time. http://honeytreephotography.com.au James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
