Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!ncar!mailrus!utah-gr!utah-cs!cs.utexas.edu!bryan From: bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this.... Message-ID: <3177@cs.utexas.edu> Date: 17 Aug 88 17:42:10 GMT References: <1836.AA1836@heimat> <3782@hcr.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.utexas.edu Reply-To: bryan@cs.utexas.edu Organization: Spam Detection & Removal Squad, Austin, TX Lines: 22 Spam-Content: Negligible In article <3782@hcr.UUCP> edwin@hcrvax.UUCP (Edwin Hoogerbeets) writes: =-I'm just waiting for the << operator. It is the only obstacle left =-against unsharing real Unix shars on the Amiga. (Amiga sed is =-on Fish 128 and wc is on Fish 69... anything else needed?) =- Yes, it would be ever so convenient if Matt's Shell used . and .. to refer to the current and parent directories, respectively (.. currently only works with cd). Then I could type 'mv ../dir1/file1 ../dir1/file2 .' instead of 'cd ../dir1; mv file1 file2 longpathname/dir2; cd ../dir2'. And while we're at it, how about history substitution anywhere, instead of just at the first word. Oh, and ! for history number in $_prompt. In other words, just port csh, minus all the process control stuff :-) This is not to be taken as Matt or Steve bashing--just suggestions for anyone feeling the need to hack. ______________________________________________________________________________ /_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/_____/ |_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____| _No dark sarcasm in the classroom|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|___ |____Teachers leave the kids alone__|_____|_____|_____|_bryan@cs.utexas.edu___| ___|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|{ihnp4,seismo,...}!cs.utexas.edu!bryan_ |_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|