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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
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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.
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