If Bash was added to the POSIX standard, they would have to support it. On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 07:21:43 -0500, John McKown wrote: >>> >>> o find -i >>> o find -l >>> o find -follow # but breaking symlink cycles. >>> o find -print0 >> >>IMO, replace above with "GNU find" or functional equivalent. >> > I was kind of hinting at that. > >>> o less >> >>Yes, I have put in an alias: >>alias less='vi -R' >>to "emulate" some of the less functionality. >> > Lacking the "F" command to tail a file being actively created. > Lacking the ability to view stdin. > >>> o xterm >> >>Why? I don't see the need to run xterm on the z/OS system. I run it on my >>desktop (well, actually I run Konsole). What would you use it for? >> > Convenience. I have a few scripts on Linux/Solaris (compatible), each > of which opens an xterm window and issues the "vi [-R]" or "less" > command on each filename argument. This lets me open viewers > or editors in separate windows in a single line command without no > need to create a terminal, login, cd through a list of directories, and > view for each. > >>> And, not an enhancement, but a bug which IBM support has inexplicably >>> declared WAD: Fix the EN_US collating sequence! >> >>Actually, I expect the PTBs to reject all of this. I still don't get the >>impression that the IBM people in charge of z/OS really have any true >>liking for the UNIX portion. And most of them seem to be very much "IP >>hogs" (that's Intellectual Property and not Internet Protocol). But that >>may be my freaky FSF persona coming out. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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