jam <[email protected]> writes:
> 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.
*nod* You could even make it easier for her: Automator can trigger when she
updates a file in a specific directory, and automate the rsync process to
transfer the files without user intervention to your server.
Just like a cron-for-file-changes tool or something. :)
Regards,
Daniel
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