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Re: list disks on Panther

At 00:03 +0100 12/1/03, Thomas C. wrote:
>Well, I just never understood these non-intuitives commands (compared to AppleScript) and where do you find all these commands (where can I find the good syntax and all the commands available ?

AppleScript is intuitive? I've spent far more time trying to guess a command syntax in AppleScript than I ever did with a cli.

Learn to use the apropos and man commands in terminal or, better, a BBEdit worksheet.

apropos something

reports man(ual) pages that are of interest to some word you typed in.

man command

returns the manual for the command with all of its switches and functionality. You'll want to get the result into a text editor rather than reading it in terminal. man man will tell you about using man. (That's clear isn't it? I wonder if it will get by the spam filters.

"Linux in a Nutshell", or "Unix in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly are good sources. You'll not notice the differences for quite a while and you just might want to telnet to a cheap Linux box from Intel.

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Applescript syntax is like English spelling:
Roughly, but not thoroughly, thought through.
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