Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- Subject: Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:43:52 -0800
At 13:56 -0700 1/29/2002, garbanzito wrote:
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as to the argument that you can read the dictionary of
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scripting additions, so can you read the man pages (ManOpen
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is a nice GUI app for this), which are much more time-tested
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and vetted for accuracy. many dictionaries are just plain
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wrong, and they usually don't have detailed background info
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built in.
Well...I agree about dictionaries (the structure doesn't always let the
truth be told short of a huge comment)...at the same time, the man pages
aren't quite as error free as one would like.
I see we've (we= Mac OS X users) been spared the situation with grep that
we (we= employer) have with our remaining BSDi server: man grep describes
grep. The grep command runs egrep, whose regular expressions differ from
what man grep says (and do agree with what man egrep says). We have a nice
GNU grep (family) command and associated man page.
It took me more than a little struggle to figure out why my regular
expressions were so consistently wrong (incompetence aside).
On the other hand, the top in Mac OS X is much wimpier than the top in BSDi
or [recent] Linux (the man pages describe it well). And so it goes.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA