Macs Suck..
John William Chambless
Bryan Shelton <br...@phoenix.phoenix.net> wrote:
[ 40 lines of "Macs are great 'cause ya don't gotta be able to type" ]
>(I wish my Mac were a woman so I could make love to it)
That would probably be about your only chance.
PS: Please stop posting your childish MAC-mongering in misc.test.
>
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John William Chambless
> What is it with you clowns who like your operating systems to be as
>difficult to use as possible? What's wrong with having a useless keyboard
Some of us like to type words on a computer, Bryan. There's life
beyond the JPEG viewer, bud.
>if YOU DON'T NEED THE GODDAMN THING to do the vast majority of daily
>house-keeping chores on the computer, or, for that matter, select options
>whithin an application? Do I have to point out the obvious, that doing
>things like moving files around from one folder/directory to another on
>the Mac is an ORDER OF MAGNITUDE FASTER compared to the antiquated DOS?!
Assuming, for the moment, that you actually understand the phrase
"order of magnitude", tell me how the Mac interface is faster.
I've used the Mac, the Winblows file manager and various X file
managers, and NONE are as fast and easy as the command line.
>Oh, yes, this is where DOS users like to point out the few exceptions to
>the rule: yes, del *.* is actually faster than on the Mac. Big damn deal.
>Let's compare ALL the commands from top to bottom; the Mac is the winner
>hands down.
Could you tell me where the icon for "Copy all the files more than
a day old to the backup directory" is in the Finder? I'm so clueless...
How about "find all the files with the word 'reorganization' in them"?
>You guys draw a masochistic pleasure from memorizing umpteen
>different cryptic commands
It's not as hard as it seems to the ignorant. Once you know
how the thing works, it's easy to find how to do things. Especially
if you can read.
>and loboriously typing them out (and frequently
^^^^^^^^^^^--- /* no comment */
>RE-typing them because of the inevitable mistakes). WINDOWS is a lame
>imitation of the Mac that I won't even dignify with further comment. Hey,
I'll agree with that. But what's your point? Neither Winhoze, System 7,
or Xfm offer anything to match the power of the command line.
A generation of marketdroids decided that if computers were easy
for total imbeciles to use, they'd sell more of them. So what?
> Wise up and face the facts: the Mac is a work of genius that
>has caused vast repercussions in this industry. Get with the program!
>
I guess that's why the new PowerMac(tm) commercial is built around
the wonderful fact that you can run Windows programs on it, eh?
What a concept: a toy emulating a turd!
R. Patrick Dockrey
: In article <39a20g$o...@griffin.phoenix.net>,
: Bryan Shelton <br...@phoenix.phoenix.net> wrote:
: [ 40 lines of "Macs are great 'cause ya don't gotta be able to type" ]
: >(I wish my Mac were a woman so I could make love to it)
: That would probably be about your only chance
Sort of gives a whole new meaning to the term "point and click" doesn't it?
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John William Chambless <cham...@whale.st.usm.edu> wrote:
>In article <39a20g$o...@griffin.phoenix.net>,
>Bryan Shelton <br...@phoenix.phoenix.net> wrote:
>>Oh, yes, this is where DOS users like to point out the few exceptions to
>>the rule: yes, del *.* is actually faster than on the Mac. Big damn deal.
>>Let's compare ALL the commands from top to bottom; the Mac is the winner
>>hands down.
>
>Could you tell me where the icon for "Copy all the files more than
>a day old to the backup directory" is in the Finder? I'm so clueless...
>
>How about "find all the files with the word 'reorganization' in them"?
As much as I hate the Mac, I have to defend it here. Select "Find",
select "More options", "Date", "greater than" and then the date.
Or "Find", "Contains" (the default) and type it in. (Unless you mean
files that have the word "reorganisation" actually embedded in the file,
which isn't all that easy in DOS, either.)
Having said that, they still suck! :)
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Ray Cathcart
William Chambless) wrote:
> Some of us like to type words on a computer, Bryan. There's life
> beyond the JPEG viewer, bud.
Okay, so use your cli. I don't have to use my brain, though. I know that
sounds funny, but it IS harder to make a mistake on a Mac then in a CLI.
And if you goof in a CLI with something like "del *.*", you've just made
life hard.
> Assuming, for the moment, that you actually understand the phrase
> "order of magnitude", tell me how the Mac interface is faster.
> I've used the Mac, the Winblows file manager and various X file
> managers, and NONE are as fast and easy as the command line.
PLEASE don't compare File Manager to the Mac's Finder. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
> Could you tell me where the icon for "Copy all the files more than
> a day old to the backup directory" is in the Finder? I'm so clueless...
Ever hear of Apple Script?
> How about "find all the files with the word 'reorganization' in them"?
Cmd-F, type "reorganization", hit enter.
> >You guys draw a masochistic pleasure from memorizing umpteen
> >different cryptic commands
>
> It's not as hard as it seems to the ignorant. Once you know
> how the thing works, it's easy to find how to do things. Especially
> if you can read.
I think his point isn't that it's HARD, but that it's unnecessary and
archaic, not to mention unintuitive. While you are reading manuals, I am
preparing a presentation for a major client. You see?
> I'll agree with that. But what's your point? Neither Winhoze, System 7,
> or Xfm offer anything to match the power of the command line.
How about a command-line emulation? Not that you need it, but it IS there.
Just what is it that you can do with the CLI that makes it so powerful,
anyway? Hell, I'd switch back to DOS for a good reason...
> A generation of marketdroids decided that if computers were easy
> for total imbeciles to use, they'd sell more of them. So what?
>
> > Wise up and face the facts: the Mac is a work of genius that
> >has caused vast repercussions in this industry. Get with the program!
> >
> I guess that's why the new PowerMac(tm) commercial is built around
> the wonderful fact that you can run Windows programs on it, eh?
>
> What a concept: a toy emulating a turd!
Actually, it would be a toy emulating a turd emulating a toy on top of
another turd...
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Ray Cathcart
Drexel University
st93...@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu
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Russ Allbery
>John William Chambless <cham...@whale.st.usm.edu> wrote:
>>
>>Could you tell me where the icon for "Copy all the files more than
>>a day old to the backup directory" is in the Finder? I'm so clueless...
>>
>>How about "find all the files with the word 'reorganization' in them"?
>
>As much as I hate the Mac, I have to defend it here. Select "Find",
>select "More options", "Date", "greater than" and then the date.
Ah, but we want to copy them into the backup directory too. And on my
system, that's on a different computer 8-). Admittedly, DOS doesn't do very
good with rcp or AFS mounts either.
>Or "Find", "Contains" (the default) and type it in. (Unless you mean
>files that have the word "reorganisation" actually embedded in the file,
>which isn't all that easy in DOS, either.)
I'm pretty sure he meant embedded in the file, and in DOS you use a little
public domain utility called grep. DOS as a base operating system sucks,
but there is such a ridiculous amount of freeware available, it becomes
almost useable.
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division by zero. [Anonymous]
DOMINIC TRISTRAM
shell. It has real pre-emptive multi-tasking (hey you Windows users, I can
format floppies AND do other things at once!). It can run DOS and Windows
(if you really want it to). It can run Mac software - faster than a more expensive
Mac. It has software that is reasonably priced and easy to find. It has
millions of satisfied users who swear by it. It costs just less than 250 pounds
for the basic model, and above-all, it's had all of this since 1985 (when PC's
were lucky to have CGA and Macs were.. well... absent.)
I own, of course, an Amiga.
Dominic
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Darin Johnson
> sounds funny, but it IS harder to make a mistake on a Mac then in a CLI.
It's also harder to make a mistake if you just leave the Mac turned off.
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Miguel Carrasquer
DOMINIC TRISTRAM <db...@aber.ac.uk> wrote:
>My computer is lovely. It has an intuitive GUI interface, as well as a decent
>shell. It has real pre-emptive multi-tasking (hey you Windows users, I can
>format floppies AND do other things at once!). It can run DOS and Windows
>(if you really want it to). It can run Mac software - faster than a more
>expensive
>Mac. It has software that is reasonably priced and easy to find. It has
>millions of satisfied users who swear by it. It costs just less than 250
>pounds
>for the basic model, and above-all, it's had all of this since 1985 (when PC's
>were lucky to have CGA and Macs were.. well... absent.)
Well, actually they weren't... 1984. (Lisas before that).
>
>I own, of course, an Amiga.
>
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Robert Watkins
: !Productions <men...@sefl.satelnet.org> writes:
: >John William Chambless <cham...@whale.st.usm.edu> wrote:
: >>
: >>Could you tell me where the icon for "Copy all the files more than
: >>a day old to the backup directory" is in the Finder? I'm so clueless...
: >>
: >>How about "find all the files with the word 'reorganization' in them"?
: >
: >As much as I hate the Mac, I have to defend it here. Select "Find",
: >select "More options", "Date", "greater than" and then the date.
: Ah, but we want to copy them into the backup directory too. And on my
: system, that's on a different computer 8-). Admittedly, DOS doesn't do very
: good with rcp or AFS mounts either.
So, having selected all the files using find, you drag them over to the
backup directory on the remotely mounted server. What's the problem?
: >Or "Find", "Contains" (the default) and type it in. (Unless you mean
: >files that have the word "reorganisation" actually embedded in the file,
: >which isn't all that easy in DOS, either.)
: I'm pretty sure he meant embedded in the file, and in DOS you use a little
: public domain utility called grep. DOS as a base operating system sucks,
: but there is such a ridiculous amount of freeware available, it becomes
: almost useable.
Doesn't AppleScript have a grep-like ability?
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are around at 9 am, it's because they were up all night.
Jeff Obik Epler
>>Could you tell me where the icon for "Copy all the files more than
>>a day old to the backup directory" is in the Finder? I'm so clueless...
>>
>>How about "find all the files with the word 'reorganization' in them"?
>As much as I hate the Mac, I have to defend it here. Select "Find",
>select "More options", "Date", "greater than" and then the date.
>Or "Find", "Contains" (the default) and type it in. (Unless you mean
>files that have the word "reorganisation" actually embedded in the file,
>which isn't all that easy in DOS, either.)
I think he was talking about the files containing the word in their
body, not their filename. But we're talking about real OSs here...
find / -print | xargs grep -l reorganization | xargs <whatever>
Of course, this will run the disk a little bit...
>Having said that, they still suck! :)
Well yeah. In Our Humble Opinions. All the same, I still end up
typing a letter or short paper on them sometimes..
Jeff
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Peter Seebach
>Ever hear of Apple Script?
Oh, yeah, and it's much less likely that you'll typo on a point-and-click
keyboard, but either this is no longer point-n-click (killing your point),
or it's pretty ugly.
>> How about "find all the files with the word 'reorganization' in them"?
>Cmd-F, type "reorganization", hit enter.
No, he meant the result of 'find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l
reorganization'
(where -l is applicable), i.e., find all files where the *file* contains
'reorganization'
>I think his point isn't that it's HARD, but that it's unnecessary and
>archaic, not to mention unintuitive. While you are reading manuals, I am
>preparing a presentation for a major client. You see?
Yup. And while you are still preparing your presentation, and moving the
mouse, and letting go of the mouse to type a word, and moving the mouse,
and moving the mouse, and moving the mouse, and clicking occasionally, I've
finished my first two.
We benchmarked it in college; the first document takes longer in nroff/tex/
whatever you use/ than in MS WORD for the Mac. The seocnd takes much much
less time. By about three documents, for simple work, the tex style
is faster.
It's faster long before the end of a reasonable-sized work, such as a 50+
page paper with figures, diagrams, and an index.
Admittedly, you can learn arithmetic much more quickly than I learned
calculus. Care to do physics using only standard issue arithmetic?
Didn't think so.
>How about a command-line emulation? Not that you need it, but it IS there.
>Just what is it that you can do with the CLI that makes it so powerful,
>anyway? Hell, I'd switch back to DOS for a good reason...
You can't under DOS; it's broken. What you can do:
1. Specify behaviors*. I can say '-f' to mean do this *NOW*, dammit.
I can say '-r' to mean 'and everything under it'. You can't easily
specify behavior with a Mac. It's just given that it behaves the way
it does.
2. Automate tasks. Come up with a sane *point and click only* way to
move every file named *.foo to *.bar in a tree. Very very difficult.
In unix, for instance:
for i in `find . -name "*.foo" -print`
do mv $i ${i%.foo}.bar
done
Neat, eh?
3. Filter. Not every application has to be able to sort. Not every
every application needs to be able to count lines. Not every application
needs to be able to match patterns.
Those are the obvious ones. There's many more. And, once you've discovered
how nice it is to be able to perform vast, sweeping things quickly, you'll
love command line editing.
Assume, on a mac, you have a fifteen-step sequence of points and clicks to
move one file deeply nested to another file deeply nested. Let's assume
you click wrong, and select '102694' instead of '101994' - five levels up.
In a CLI environment, you edit your previous line, and you're done.
In a point-and-click environment, you close N windows and open N other
windows. Fun.
> Ray Cathcart
> Drexel University
> st93...@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu
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Ray Cathcart <st93...@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu> wrote:
>In article <39haln$28...@whale.st.usm.edu>, cham...@whale.st.usm.edu (John
>Just what is it that you can do with the CLI that makes it so powerful,
>anyway? Hell, I'd switch back to DOS for a good reason...
How about this?
cat $* | tr -sc A-Za-z '\012' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail
Can Finder do that? (If you don't know what it does, look it up! :)
Russ Allbery
>Russ Allbery (r...@Xenon.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
>: Ah, but we want to copy them into the backup directory too. And on my
>: system, that's on a different computer 8-). Admittedly, DOS doesn't do very
>: good with rcp or AFS mounts either.
>
>So, having selected all the files using find, you drag them over to the
>backup directory on the remotely mounted server. What's the problem?
The Mac can't mount the remote server. Unless, of course, you're aware of
an AFS client for a Mac; if you are, there are a lot of people who would
love to know about it.
Admittedly, if we're talking about a Mac vs. DOS argument, this is rather
irrelevant, since DOS can't do it either. Unix, however, can...Mac's
have a real problem with connectivity compared to Unix systems. Linux now
has an AFS client, at least in beta-test, so the Intel architecture can do
it. It isn't precisely easy, but it's at least possible.
>: I'm pretty sure he meant embedded in the file, and in DOS you use a little
>: public domain utility called grep. DOS as a base operating system sucks,
>: but there is such a ridiculous amount of freeware available, it becomes
>: almost useable.
>
>Doesn't AppleScript have a grep-like ability?
I don't have any idea. Does that mean that I would have to do some
programming in order to do something on a Mac that I can do with a simple
command in DOS and Unix?
Look, as I've said in other threads (I'm reading this from
alt.folklore.computers, so they may not be threads on your newsgroup of
choice), I consider the whole "which operating system is better" debate to
be rather pointless, since so much of it depends on exactly what you're
trying to do. I'm just trying to point out that the Mac isn't some kind of
universal cure-all, or is necessarily the best interface in existance for
all users. There are things that you can do on other platforms that are
either impossible or extremely difficult on a Mac. For users, unlike me,
who don't have to do those things, the Mac may be a great interface.
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without the proper training. [Douglas Adams]
Ray Cathcart
(!Productions) wrote:
> How about this?
>
> cat $* | tr -sc A-Za-z '\012' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail
>
> Can Finder do that? (If you don't know what it does, look it up! :)
>
You know very well I have no clue what that means :-) Tell me, and maybe I
can send back the equivelant Finder command...
Robert Watkins
: In article <st93z5dw-061...@sn207030.resnet.drexel.edu>,
: Ray Cathcart <st93...@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu> wrote:
: >In article <39haln$28...@whale.st.usm.edu>, cham...@whale.st.usm.edu (John
: >How about a command-line emulation? Not that you need it, but it IS there.
: >Just what is it that you can do with the CLI that makes it so powerful,
: >anyway? Hell, I'd switch back to DOS for a good reason...
: How about this?
: cat $* | tr -sc A-Za-z '\012' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail
: Can Finder do that? (If you don't know what it does, look it up! :)
A) Yep, Finder can do that. Okay, it's not built in, but you could write a
program to do it. (And that's all that the above are, are programs).
B) How often do you need a list of the 5 or so most common words in the
input files with the number of occurences, anyway? I mean, it doesn't even
tell you which files they came from! (Okay, so you could do them one at a
time...)
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>My computer is lovely. It has an intuitive GUI interface, as well as a decent
>shell. It has real pre-emptive multi-tasking (hey you Windows users, I can
>format floppies AND do other things at once!). It can run DOS and Windows
>(if you really want it to). It can run Mac software - faster than a more expensive
>Mac. It has software that is reasonably priced and easy to find. It has
>millions of satisfied users who swear by it. It costs just less than 250 pounds
>for the basic model, and above-all, it's had all of this since 1985 (when PC's
>were lucky to have CGA and Macs were.. well... absent.)
>
>I own, of course, an Amiga.
>
>Dominic
>
It just such a crying shame that your power supply goes fritz on you every time
you try to add a new nit of hardware.
Flames will be used to warm marshmallows.
Jeff Robertson
> In article <39haln$28...@whale.st.usm.edu>, cham...@whale.st.usm.edu (John
> William Chambless) wrote:
> > Assuming, for the moment, that you actually understand the phrase
> > "order of magnitude", tell me how the Mac interface is faster.
> > I've used the Mac, the Winblows file manager and various X file
> > managers, and NONE are as fast and easy as the command line.
> PLEASE don't compare File Manager to the Mac's Finder. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
> >
> > It's not as hard as it seems to the ignorant. Once you know
> > how the thing works, it's easy to find how to do things. Especially
> > if you can read.
[....]
> How about a command-line emulation? Not that you need it, but it IS there.
> Just what is it that you can do with the CLI that makes it so powerful,
> anyway? Hell, I'd switch back to DOS for a good reason...
PLEASE don't take DOS as the representative example of all CLI's.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
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John William Chambless
Ray Cathcart <st93...@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu> wrote:
]>> I guess that's why the new PowerMac(tm) commercial is built around
]>> the wonderful fact that you can run Windows programs on it, eh?
]>> What a concept: a toy emulating a turd!
>Actually, it would be a toy emulating a turd emulating a toy on top of
>another turd...
>
I stand corrected.
Your characterization is more accurate and fair than mine was.
Stuart Van Onselen
since these two computers dominate the home computer market rather
convinvingly, this whole market becomes dreary.
PC's are hampered by 15-20 YEARS of backward compatibility - to a degree,
their CPU's are compatible with the 8080! For crying out loud - let's not
turn this into a RISC/CISC debate, but the Pentium does carry a ludicrous
amount of useless baggage around with it.
Let's not even talk about the principle operating systems for PC's - if I
start bitching about Microsoft, I'll soon have you all falling asleep due to
the boring length of my tirade. And OS/2 also makes quite a few compromises
in the name of backward compatibility.
Mac's are tyrannical - programming them is diffficult (hard to get info and
tools) and using them imaginatively is difficult (restrictive OS). Their
architectures are inefficient, and they lack proper multitasking. At least
they use Motorola CPU's! I must say, though, that all my info on Mac's is
second hand - I couldn't afford one!
Alternatives on the home computer front?
UNIX - Usually runs on PC's anyway, and, while VERY powerful, is also very
complex, resource hungry and unfriendly (still prefer it over DOS, no
question!)
AMIGA - GREAT machine, but underappreciated, poorly marketed, and run into
the ground by incompetent marketers. Sigh!
So you see, I am more than a little disillusioned by the whole scene. I am
sure that a zillion happy PC and Mac owners will promptly try to make me see
the error of my beliefs, but they'll have try REALLY hard.
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John William Chambless
Jeff Robertson <jrob...@ua1ix.ua.edu> wrote:
]>> Just what is it that you can do with the CLI that makes it so powerful,
]>> anyway? Hell, I'd switch back to DOS for a good reason...
>PLEASE don't take DOS as the representative example of all CLI's.
>PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
>
Indeed. When I do data analysis at work, I find that I can do a lot
of it from the Unix prompt without even starting an application.
With nothing more than csh, grep, and awk, you can do a lot.
The situation is even better since I have grep and [g]awk on my DOS
machine, and have my Unix home directory NFS-mounted to my PC.
...which brings us back to the topic:
GUIs are great for the limited subset of functions that they
present, but a lot of us have to do a lot of adhockery. A CLI offers
the use of a carefully-designed set of tools, which, along with
pipes and redirection, let me do whatever is needed with a minimum
of hassle. A GUI is faster when what you want to do is a menu choice,
but they don't cope well with the unusual.
Alexander John Batyi
>Robert Watkins <b...@morinda.it.ntu.edu.au> writes:
>>Russ Allbery (r...@Xenon.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
>>Doesn't AppleScript have a grep-like ability?
>I don't have any idea. Does that mean that I would have to do some
>programming in order to do something on a Mac that I can do with a simple
>command in DOS and Unix?
I have all three and I can't even find the Command Line Interface on
my Mac IIci! You all can keep your meeses and such. I find it much
more valuable to be able to type in multi-line commands with pipes and
loops to accomplish complex tasks on the fly. If I find the task
is repetetive, it is MUCH easier to enter the multi-liner into a text
editor, chmod +x the file and stick it in a bin dir in my PATH. Then
I can tap a few keys and viola! Faster than you can grab your mouse...
To even get a program in my HandsOff menu is a tougher job. That is
if I could learn how to put something into program form on the Mac!
What do you need? So far by asking around I have found out you need
something called a toolbox or some shit. I think that that even costs
extra! Geez, love my mac huh? These nuts obviously don't do any
real work other than application work on their machines. If someone
out there wants to let me in on the secret and tell me how to actually
use this preprogrammed piece of crap please do. X-windows is easier to
program!
If only they had ProTools and Midi Timepiece II for Unix...
Oh, and why do all the manuals keep warning me to save things
often? The Mac locks up alot, that's why! My Linux box
(and every Unix I have ever run) needs a reason to lock up.
This thing doesn't according to my manuals. They just lose
it every once and a while. DUH! Don't tell me Ye Old Init
Conflict either.
Thank you Mr. Ed Wells for turning me onto Unix and C in the early 80's
when I was still writing with assembler and TI Basic on my TI-99/4a.
Gee, said all that and didn't even have to mention MessyDOS. :-)
The only reason I even know how to use DOS is because of all my
sheeplike friends who fell into place behind Big Blue. What would
the world be like if the CP/M guy DIDN'T have a previous engagement
unlike Mr. Gates or if they had the sense to allow him a life and
schedule a different meeting time/date? WOW and imagine if they
picked Motorola instead of Intel! Cheap 680x0 hardware and expensive
*86 parts? Would there even be a 286? How could so few idiots screw
so many people for a couple of billion lousy bucks?
A OGRE
>In article <39khcc$o...@sefl.satelnet.org>,
>!Productions <men...@sefl.satelnet.org> wrote:
>> [og...@netcom.com wrote]:
>>>grep reorganisation *
>>
>>But all that will do is display a bunch of lines with "reorganisation" in
>>them somewhere. It won't tell you what file it was in, which was the
>>original point of the exercise...
>Wrong.
It will show you the name of each file that contains reorganisation,
plus each line that contains the phrase. If you also want line
NUMBERS, you merely have to add the -n flag.
>Sheesh I wish people would bother to do research on the topic before
>bothering to argue about something.
What he said.
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Oh? grrrr!
Alistair James Robert Young
>GUIs are great for the limited subset of functions that they
>present, but a lot of us have to do a lot of adhockery. A CLI offers
>the use of a carefully-designed set of tools, which, along with
>pipes and redirection, let me do whatever is needed with a minimum
>of hassle. A GUI is faster when what you want to do is a menu choice,
>but they don't cope well with the unusual.
>
So why not do what I do under OS/2 ... USE BOTH! Use the GUI for simple
things (run my wordprocessor on this document, delete this file, copy
this other file, format this floppy), and then when you need to do
a lot of assorted piping, redirection, et al ad naus., start up a command
line window and type away! Advantages of both, problems of neither...
Well, *I* think it makes sense...
Alistair
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The opinions above are my company's, because I OWN it!
[Development for OS/2 only!] Contact: aj...@st-and.ac.uk
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A OGRE
>Or "Find", "Contains" (the default) and type it in. (Unless you mean
>files that have the word "reorganisation" actually embedded in the file,
>which isn't all that easy in DOS, either.)
uhh,
grep reorganisation *
A unix command, I'm sure there's grep for DOS too...(probably have to
use *.* for the silly thing to work right)
I think there's a sweep command for DOS if you want to do it
recursively, something like
sweep grep reorganisation *
to check all the files in every sub-directory of the current one.
I most likely have the syntax wrong, I don't actually use DOS.
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Joe Rumsey <og...@netcom.com> ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/ogre/home.html
Ray Cathcart
(Jeff Robertson) wrote:
> PLEASE don't take DOS as the representative example of all CLI's.
> PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
I guess you got me there...
Ray Cathcart
William Chambless) wrote:
> Indeed. When I do data analysis at work, I find that I can do a lot
> of it from the Unix prompt without even starting an application.
> With nothing more than csh, grep, and awk, you can do a lot.
> The situation is even better since I have grep and [g]awk on my DOS
> machine, and have my Unix home directory NFS-mounted to my PC.
> ...which brings us back to the topic:
> GUIs are great for the limited subset of functions that they
> present, but a lot of us have to do a lot of adhockery. A CLI offers
> the use of a carefully-designed set of tools, which, along with
> pipes and redirection, let me do whatever is needed with a minimum
> of hassle. A GUI is faster when what you want to do is a menu choice,
> but they don't cope well with the unusual.
There are AT LEAST three grep-like utilities for the Mac.
Ray Cathcart
djoh...@arnold.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) wrote:
> > Okay, so use your cli. I don't have to use my brain, though. I know that
> > sounds funny, but it IS harder to make a mistake on a Mac then in a CLI.
>
> It's also harder to make a mistake if you just leave the Mac turned off.
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) Funny, but not a good point...
Karl A. Krueger
>a day old to the backup directory" is in the Finder? I'm so clueless...
Command-F, select "date modified", select "is before", enter yesterday's
date, click "all at once", and click "OK". Command-D to make copies,
then drag them (all at once!) to the backup folder. Not hard.
>How about "find all the files with the word 'reorganization' in them"?
Command-F, "name", "contains", enter "reorganization"
>I guess that's why the new PowerMac(tm) commercial is built around
>the wonderful fact that you can run Windows programs on it, eh?
Sure ... to move the DOS/Windorks to Mac.
Mac has many levels ... you can run it like a moron, always do the "easy
install", then just run your applications ... or you can run it like an
expert, reconfigure it to Do What I Mean, get new utilities, patches, and
the like ... tell me, what was that patch for Linux or MSDOG called that
does idle-time recompression -- WITHOUT changing the structure of the whole
filesystem? What was that program that lets you edit almost the *entire
interface* of nearly any program? For that matter, how many good word
processors are shipping for Linux?
How about your sound support? Or multimedia? I can run Mosaic on my
Mac; can you run Hypercard on your UNIX machine? I can use TCP/IP; can
you use AppleTalk? How many MSDOG/Windork machines can parse both
TrueType *and* PostScript fonts?
Expandability: my PowerBook Blackbird can be expanded to PowerPC; can
your IBM PC-compatible be expanded to an RS/6000?
Face it: MSDOS/Windows and the '86 architecture are obsolete; it's only
a matter of time until they die out. UNIX is too obscure for real users;
it's a sysadmin's system -- job security through snob obscurity.
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!Productions
>!Productions (men...@sefl.satelnet.org) wrote:
>>Or "Find", "Contains" (the default) and type it in. (Unless you mean
>>files that have the word "reorganisation" actually embedded in the file,
>>which isn't all that easy in DOS, either.)
>
>uhh,
>
>grep reorganisation *
But all that will do is display a bunch of lines with "reorganisation" in
them somewhere. It won't tell you what file it was in, which was the
original point of the exercise...
>A unix command, I'm sure there's grep for DOS too...(probably have to
>use *.* for the silly thing to work right)
There's grep for everything except the Mac. :)
John William Chambless
]>>grep reorganisation *
>But all that will do is display a bunch of lines with "reorganisation" in
>them somewhere. It won't tell you what file it was in, which was the
>original point of the exercise...
Wrong. The example ogre gives will, in fact return filenames associated
with the lines it finds. The only time grep doesn't give the filename
is if it's only searching one file, as in:
grep foo bar.c
Otherwise it gives each filename with the lines it selects. This is true
at least on SunOS, AIX, and with Borland's grep.
I don't have a Mac handy right now; does FIND let you search for
lines (or files) NOT containing a given string? How about regular
expressions?
Of course, with Unix, you can use pipes, backquoting, etc to say
"delete every file containing the word 'Microsoft' from this file system"
in about a line of code. Just as an example, mind you....
--
"Obviously unlike you people, I don't have time to edit the newsgroups line
for every single article I post." -- ma...@cs.yale.edu
Eric Remy
In article <1994Nov7.1...@rescon.wells.com>,
Alexander John Batyi <b...@rescon.wells.com> wrote:
>In article <39k4ed$3...@Radon.Stanford.EDU> r...@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Russ Allbery) writes:
>>Robert Watkins <b...@morinda.it.ntu.edu.au> writes:
>>>Russ Allbery (r...@Xenon.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
>>>Doesn'