On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:03:05PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > Which of the names of standard Unix tools is particularly
> > intuitive?
> find
Yes, but it's not immediately obvious how it differs from locate.
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* Peter da Silva [2006-04-12 19:03 -0500]:
> > Which of the names of standard Unix tools is particularly
> > intuitive?
>
> find
But it makes up for that with its command line arguments.
Also, there's 'locate' around to muddy the waters.
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> Which of the names of standard Unix tools is particularly
> intuitive?
find
* Mischa Spiegelmock [2006-04-06 07:20]:
> Anyway, the subject of my hate tonight is the command to list
> processes, also known as "ps." (Which may I point out is a
> horribly unintuitive name in itself, but I digress).
Which of the names of standard Unix tools is particularly
intuitive? Most ar
> The ps usage tells me, and I quote: "fASCII art forest"
Huh?
> Great UNIX, just great.
Let me try this on a couple of UNIX systems close at hand.
-f Show commandline and environment information about swapped out
processes. This option is honored only if the uid of the user is
* Rafael Garcia-Suarez [2006-04-06 14:10]:
> You mean the hateful GNU ps that attemps to mimic every ps(1)
> syntax out there? The one that produces completely different
> outputs when invoked as "ps f" and "ps -f"?
That's hateful enough by itself, but the manpage is worse. It
reads like a long s
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:07:23PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> On 06/04/06, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> >
> > Strictly speaking, "ps f" -> foliage is not a UNIX thing, it's a demon
> > spawn of Unix, err, a Linux thing. In traditional and/or standard
> > UNIXes "f" is for "full" listing.
On 06/04/06, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
Strictly speaking, "ps f" -> foliage is not a UNIX thing, it's a demon
spawn of Unix, err, a Linux thing. In traditional and/or standard
UNIXes "f" is for "full" listing.
You mean the hateful GNU ps that attemps to mimic every ps(1) syntax
out there? The
>> mode.
>> The ps usage tells me, and I quote: "fASCII art forest"
>> It's a forest because it has trees. Get it?
>
> Actually, yes, just as per the definition of "tree" and "forest" in
> graph theory; cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_%28graph_theory%29
I have more problems here with th
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:14:36PM -0700, Mischa Spiegelmock wrote:
> And to think some people actually have the nerve to claim UNIX-style
> operating systems are not user-friendly!
> Here we are, in the year two thousand and six of our Lord, and UNIX
> commands still somehow manage to be as ha
And to think some people actually have the nerve to claim UNIX-style
operating systems are not user-friendly!
Here we are, in the year two thousand and six of our Lord, and UNIX
commands still somehow manage to be as hateful as ever.
Anyway, the subject of my hate tonight is the command to list
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