6 Jan
2023
6 Jan
'23
3:11 a.m.
In the v8 shell, the "whatis" command's output is all parseable by the
shell to recreate the item being identified. For instance, "whatis HOME"
would print
HOME=/usr/rob
while "whatis cd"
would print
builtin cd
and so on. I failed to convince POSIX or other forces to adopt this, and to
this day remain puzzled why people couldn't see its value, even though of
course not having an editable typescript does limit the flexibility
somewhat.
Plan 9 happened soon after.
-rob
On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 12:22 AM Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
wrote:
Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com> writes:
Wow! Small programs that do one thing and do it
well connected together
to
do more complicated things? What an awesome idea
:-)
*grin*
Sometimes people call it "screen scraping", and seem to think it's wrong
to desire parseable output from commands. I like to point them at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0&t=358
-tih
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