Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: CoolCLI

2006-08-05 Thread Roland Mainz
Jignesh K. Shah wrote: All traditional shells (sh,ksh,bash) expect users to know UNIX commands in and out and not intuitive. They are meant for UNIX savvy people. ksh93 also won't help Solaris to gain new users who are not exposed to UNIX before. Grumpf... and you think this... why ?

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: CoolCLI

2006-08-05 Thread Roland Mainz
Felix Schulte wrote: On 8/2/06, Jignesh K. Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All traditional shells (sh,ksh,bash) expect users to know UNIX commands in and out and not intuitive. They are meant for UNIX savvy people. ksh93 also won't help Solaris to gain new users who are not exposed

[osol-discuss] Project Proposal: CoolCLI

2006-08-02 Thread Jignesh K. Shah
All traditional shells (sh,ksh,bash) expect users to know UNIX commands in and out and not intuitive. They are meant for UNIX savvy people. ksh93 also won't help Solaris to gain new users who are not exposed to UNIX before. Plus they are single-threaded, need to know lot of options and not

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: CoolCLI

2006-08-02 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Jignesh K. Shah wrote: As an example lets consider the ls command which can be implemted as follows (open for discussion of course) LIST FILES {pattern} {[IN path] {[ADDED | MODIFIED | ACCESSED] IN LAST [N] [DAYS|MONTHS|YEARS]}} LIST DIRECTORIES and going beyond that

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: CoolCLI

2006-08-02 Thread Felix Schulte
On 8/2/06, Jignesh K. Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All traditional shells (sh,ksh,bash) expect users to know UNIX commands in and out and not intuitive. They are meant for UNIX savvy people. ksh93 also won't help Solaris to gain new users who are not exposed to UNIX before. Plus they are

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: CoolCLI

2006-08-02 Thread James Carlson
Rich Teer writes: LIST DEVICES {OF TYPE REMOVABLE| HARDDISK | NETWORKADAPTERS | } LIST USERS { LOGGEDON | INACTIVE } LIST GROUPS LIST FILESYSTEMS Let me guess, you're a VMS fan? ;-) Personally, I liked the Adventure shell from way back when: $ look There are two exits, called

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: CoolCLI

2006-08-02 Thread Jignesh K. Shah
Actually I have never used VMS in my life. But I like SQL and I think in many ways I am thinking of standardized commands which will work on any structure be it file , processes, directories, etc. Similar to how /proc etc in some sense. -Jignesh Rich Teer wrote: On Wed, 2 Aug 2006,