On Jan 6, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
Closest thing I know of would be apropos. Not a complete list, but a
more
'targeted' list. Could implement a search box that returns an
apropos list
(on mac and linux) and use that for a clickable.
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Peter Brigham MD <pmb...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Jan 5, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
Thanks pretty useful if you know already what the command is you
need help
with. Looks like you are getting the man pages via a shell call
yourself.
What would make this marketable is if there was a way to list all
the
shell commands available to the system and present them to the
user in a
list, have the user be able to click on a shell command and have
the man
page load, and then be able to insert the command into a rev
script with the
proper LiveCode syntax. I would pay money for that!
Bob
That was just my reaction to the stack -- great if you know what
you're
doing already, but you have to know shell commands. (I dropped it
into my
Plugins folder anyway....)
Is there a shell command to get all the shell commands on the
currently
running system? If so, it should be a snap to expand the stack
accordingly.
On Dec 28, 2010, at 1:55 AM, Phil Davis wrote:
Hi folks,
I just uploaded a new version of the Shell() Command Help plugin
I'm playing with this to see if I can come up with something. One
problem: when I use
put shell("man cp") into fld "f"
I get output like this:
CP(1) BSD General Commands
Manual CP(1)
NNAAMMEE
ccpp -- copy files
SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
ccpp [--RR [--HH | --LL | --PP]] [--ffii | --nn] [--ppvvXX]
_s_o_u_r_c_e___f_i_l_e _t_a_r_g_e_t___f_i_l_e
ccpp [--RR [--HH | --LL | --PP]] [--ffii | --nn] [--ppvvXX]
_s_o_u_r_c_e___f_i_l_e _._._. _t_a_r_g_e_t___d_i_r_e_c_t_o_r_y
DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
In the first synopsis form, the ccpp utility copies the contents
of the
_s_o_u_r_c_e___f_i_l_e to the _t_a_r_g_e_t___f_i_l_e. In the
second synopsis form, the con-
tents of each named _s_o_u_r_c_e___f_i_l_e is copied to the
destination
_t_a_r_g_e_t___d_i_r_e_c_t_o_r_y. The names of the files
themselves are not changed. If
ccpp detects an attempt to copy a file to itself, the copy will
fail.
The following options are available:
--ff For each existing destination pathname, remove it and
create a new
file, without prompting for confirmation regardless of its
permis-
sions. (The --ff option overrides any previous --nn
option.)
The target file is not unlinked before the copy. Thus,
any exist-
ing access rights will be retained.
<snip>
As you can see, the section titles and commands consist of doubled
letters. How can I get a good clear text out of this? Does it have
something to do with the text encoding? Pardon my ignorance, I'm a
newbie to messing around with system calls.
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
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