To: Fitzcarraldo
I agree, I still use it all the time.
What I never liked about UNIX is the obfuscation of the various shell commands. If there was an easy, intuitive way to implement a command, the UNIX developer would look at it, and then go 180 degrees away from it.
29 posted on
01/26/2006 9:35:10 AM PST by
MarkeyD
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To: MarkeyD
"If there was an easy, intuitive way to implement a command, the UNIX developer would look at it, and then go 180 degrees away from it."
It's function over form. Unix commands are notoriously cryptic and also famously powerful. The good news for casual users of the command line is that aliases and scripts can take care of a lot of that.
It's diffcult to write a function that's powerful, flexible and concise. Pick two, can't have all three.
33 posted on
01/26/2006 9:40:59 AM PST by
brownsfan
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