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: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:25:59 -0700
At 19:12 +0100 10/7/2002, has wrote:
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Why not
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include information in each that allows them to be viewed by "topic" [wrong
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word, but can't think of a better one] - filesystem operations, text
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munging, etc. - instead of purely alphabetical? Have I missed something, or
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is the machine really that unhelpful? Tell me this stuff _couldn't_ be made
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easier...
apropos is a bit messy, but it does do a fair job of finding *Unix* items
related to some topic.
Let's suppose you want to change a default value in Mac OS, and you
remember someone told you there was a shell command to do it.
apropos default
produces several lines, including the encouraging
defaults(1) - access the Mac OS X user defaults system
(and some complete irrelevancies, like default_store(3) - generic
storage of global data).
But that should point you toward man defaults
Yes...it's like a fishing expedition.
I'm pretty sure apropos arose because of the difficulty you cite with just
looking at /usr/bin (which isn't the only one you have to look at, anyhow).
Senior term project somewhere, most likely...let's see if the man page
tells us...no, it's been "improved".
The related command
whatis
can be useful, too, but has to be used artistically in other ways...
whatis default
misses the defaults command (it searches for full words only)...
whatis defaults, if one thinks to try it, gives
defaults(1) - access the Mac OS X user defaults system
lpoptions(1) - display or set printer options and defaults
Clearly the second isn't what we want, but defaults seems worth looking at.
That output from whatis led me to try
apropos 'Mac OS X'
which did find defaults, but not much else (which was disappointing).
as(1) - Mac OS X Mach-O GNU-based assemblers
defaults(1) - access the Mac OS X user defaults system
vecLib(7), AltiVec vecLib vMathLib BLAS LAPACK vDSP vBigNum vBasicOps
Vector Computation Velocity Engine Extended Math Library(7) -
This man page introduces the vector instruction set extension to the
PowerPC architecture known as Velocity Engine (or AltiVec) and
its accompanying libraries and programming support in Mac OS X
This is the sort of adventure one embarks upon (after ones associates get
tired of answering "How do I...?"
Or not. One can run Mac OS X quite well without learning any of this stuff.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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