On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 13:33:21 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > For a one-off quick task, automating it would be more tedious.
But you did it anyway, even though you didn't need the results! (Don't change, your code snippets are great.) > I learnt by reading books. Pre-Internet. The authors back then > typically put a lot of effort into providing a coherent progression > through the subject. That's exactly why I think books (and courses) are valuable. I don't see them as a thing of the past. Other resources can sometimes provide quick answers, or an overview of current thinking, but I tend to turn to books when I want a solid, baseline understanding of a well- developed topic. The main difficulty I have with books is discovering the right ones, and I suppose I was fishing for a book recommendation, so thank you for recommending 'The Unix Programming Environment'. There seems to be a copy of it in the library at Bournemouth University. https://capitadiscovery.co.uk/bournemouth-ac/items/91529 At some point I will head over there to have a read and see what's nearby on the shelves; that usually turns up something good. (If I can figure out how to navigate the ever-changing maze of new buildings on their campus.) > This is a bug that you may like to report Good point. I'll see about doing that later. On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 14:05:30 +0100, Bob Dunlop wrote: > The command was simply "ldd /usr/bin/nvi" which shows the list of > object dependencies, then cut and paste library names I'm interested > in into the size command. That makes sense. I thought there might have been a magic one-liner that knew which ones to omit, but in hindsight I suppose you need quite a bit of context to decide which libraries are relevant, so it's not as plausible as I thought. On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 14:44:22 +0100, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > You reminded me that a few days ago I listed the files in a core > package on a server (looking for a missing utility) and saw a few > things in the list that I didn't immediately recognise. I thought > at the time, "That would be a good way to learn about utilities > that I don't know exist". That's true. Package management is a good way to find things, and there is usually some kind of categorisation in place as well. Certainly a useful tool to keep at hand. Patrick -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-08-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
