> From: Michael JasonSmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 11:37 a.m. > To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz > Subject: RE: On the other side... > > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 11:32 +1200, Steve Brorens wrote: > > Well it's a mixture of all things from all over the place (eg Perl > > and > > SQL) plus the whole .NET thing, but it feels *much* more like an > > extension of bash, awk and friends than it does anything from the > > DOS/Basic/WSH side. Really powerful piping and good regex > for example > > (and documentation via the 'man' command!) If you have to work with > > Windows it's a promising way to use the 'trad unix way' in that > > environment. > > >From what I understood, the Unix-like commands were shortcuts for > >longer > commands (with full module names and the like) in Monad. When > I was referring to Monad being Python-like, I was thinking of > the underlying scripting language and object-model, rather > than the commands; I take your point :)
Yup, 'man', 'ps' and 'ls' are just aliases, and so all the options (e.g. ls -ltr) don't work. However 'man' is actually quite nice, if you're used to often calling it up in *nix. The output even looks pretty much like what you'd expect; good old terse man-page-style... As far as syntax, this page: http://blogs.msdn.com/monad/archive/2006/04/22/581065.aspx gives a few examples of simple one-liners, comparing with ksh (interestingly there seems to be a directive in Microsoft to mention sh, csh, ksh, but *not* bash - very odd) - steve ========================================================= This e-mail has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by CommArc Cube Server
