Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site kuling.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!enea!kuling!christer From: christer@kuling.UUCP (Christer Johansson) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Unix from a snob's point of view! Message-ID: <839@kuling.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 00:03:15 EST Article-I.D.: kuling.839 Posted: Fri Oct 25 00:03:15 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 07:04:16 EST References: <298@weitek.UUCP> <951@enea.UUCP> Reply-To: christer@kuling.UUCP (Christer Johansson) Followup-To: net.followup Organization: (Studying CS at) the University of Uppsala, Sweden Lines: 23 Summary: Write your own shell if you doesn't like unix's commandnames In article <951@enea.UUCP> of Wed, 23-Oct-85 22:07:55 GMT sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) writes: >In article <298@weitek.UUCP> mmm@weitek.UUCP (Mark Thorson) writes: >>1. It has cryptic command names. (So what? They work! Alias them if >> you'd rather say 'search' to call 'grep'! What do you want, a menu-driven >> shell? It would be easy to give you one if that'll put this stupid >> criticism to rest!) > >So you want me to find out what "grep", "awk" and the rest stands for, to >Another point is the one-letter options Unix provides. I would say it's >a quite inhuman task trying to remember but quite a few. What do you want me Decide for yourself what commands, switches etc you want. Ask your local guru if there is programs that do those things, then write your own commandinterpreter that forks and execls. You'll have to learn have to do the things you want done, but then you could forget them, and use your own shell. -- SMail: Christer Johansson EMail: {seismo,seismo!mcvax}!enea!kuling!christer OR Sernandersv. 9:136 christer@kuling.UUCP S-752 63 Uppsala Phone: Int. +46 - 18 46 31 54 SWEDEN Nat. 018 - 46 31 54