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Re: list disks on Panther
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Re: list disks on Panther


  • Subject: Re: list disks on Panther
  • From: "Thomas C." <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:48:43 +0100

Well yes AS is intuitive becauyse AS is an English-like language and that's exactly what's great in AS : for example several times I found by chance an AppleScript command just by trying to write what I wanted without knowing what was the command and it worked. If I see a command in AS, I can tell exactly what it does, it is not the case for a Terminal command.
Anyway thanks for the apropos command, I did not know it (I'll think of it next time).

Thomas

Doug McNutt wrote :

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.
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