Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 16:34:03 -0500 From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>, "R.Munden" <orbitmaster@netorbit.com> Cc: Matthew King <kingy@ihug.com.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A new FreeBSD commmand Message-ID: <01010616340304.07534@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101061042470.67612-100000@oddjob.adhesivemedia.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101061042470.67612-100000@oddjob.adhesivemedia.com>
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Come on, the guy had to be joking. How can somebody know how to write a correct shell script, with a descriptive header and not know how to read the shell manpage to find out about aliases. He was just having fun, though the attitude of remembering being a newbie sitting at a shell prompt and wondering what to do is a good one. Tim On Saturday January 06, 2001 13:47, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > WHAT IS WRONG WITH ALL YOU PEOPLE!?!?!?! > > I suppose none of you remember when you first started with unix and > wrote your first shell script and how good you felt that you were > actually *doing* something on unix other than typing "mail"??? > > Is this the type of response that you would want in response to some > program you'd written? > > Give the guy a break. Everyone starts somewhere. > > At least this guy is contributing something... the rest of you are > just being downright mean. > > -philip > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, R.Munden wrote: > > oh yeah, I forgot to put <sarcasm></sarcasm> around that > > > > --rjm-- > > > > "... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was > > that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful > > termination of their C programs." > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dima > > > Dorfman Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 11:36 PM > > > To: R.Munden > > > Cc: Matthew King; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > Subject: Re: A new FreeBSD commmand > > > > > > > I was wondering if you could add some command line switches in > > > > > > case I wanted > > > > > > > to see the whole directory and the directory files themselves. > > > > > > Something > > > > > > > like wdl -a; I think it should imitate the output of ls -la > > > > maybe. > > > > > > If it's implemented as an alias, this functionality is already > > > present. 'll' -u works as expected (translates to "ls -l -u"). > > > > > > Dima Dorfman > > > dima@unixfreak.org > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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