Re: top <repeat 100 times \r rant \r end repeat>
Re: top <repeat 100 times \r rant \r end repeat>
- Subject: Re: top <repeat 100 times \r rant \r end repeat>
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:12:27 +0100
John Delacour wrote:
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> change directory (cd)
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> list (ls)
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> remove (rm)
[...]
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>there's hundreds of commands available, and the purpose of most is not
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>apparent from their fiercely contracted names.
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Nonsense. If by the time you've read the manual for the command and
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worked out how to use it, you haven't yet managed to absorb the
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couple of very obvious and intuitive characters needed to run it,
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something is a bit upside down.
Your interpretation of my argument? I could post a listing of /usr/bin here
to demonstrate, but why bog down the list on what folk can view for
themselves? Point being: if you want to see what's available _in the first
place_, you should be able to do so from a listing, not by having to read
each manual in turn. Not everyone is a natural information sponge.
And ls /usr/bin reminds me again of what I said about everything being
dumped in a heap for the user to sort out in their own mind. Why not
include information in each that allows them to be viewed by "topic" [wrong
word, but can't think of a better one] - filesystem operations, text
munging, etc. - instead of purely alphabetical? Have I missed something, or
is the machine really that unhelpful? Tell me this stuff _couldn't_ be made
easier...
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Try it -- it might cure your verbosity
The finest Harley Street doctors couldn't cure that. Perhaps a copy editor
with a very large chainsaw? :p
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You'll get good practice if you do all your ftp work in
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the terminal for the next two months and type "?" whenever you get
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stuck, or "help" if you don't like the shift key.
Amusingly, these don't want to work when I do it. [OK, so I _know_ I've
missed something, but what?] Oh, you whacky shell...
has
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