the aliases aren't so bad. Someone said mount /A: was a good mnemonic, but I don't see how it's better than mount /floppy. A: is a letter followed by a punctuation mark. 'floppy' says what it is. Only people with environmental damages from various other OSes could find A: 'intuitive' and they have to be re-educated ASAP. While we're on this subject: who was the brainiac behind /etc/profile.d/complete.bash? I don't see why I can't have file name completion just because the suffix isn't 'correct'. This 'fenestration' of linux has to stop IMHO. It also ties in with the somewhat silly discussion about MIME attachments. This is linux. You should be using linux. Then you wouldn't have problems with attachments. On Tuesday 27 November 2001 18:40, Jon Clausen wrote:
gets me the manpage for bash... this is even more confusing... I know from "type type", that type is a shell builtin, but this manpage is >5000 lines, and I'm really no closer to understanding what type *does* :P
type [-atp] name [name ...] With no options, indicate how each name would be interpreted if used as a command name. If the -t option is used, type prints a string which is one of alias, keyword, function, builtin, or file if name is an alias, shell reserved word, function, builtin, or disk file, respectively. If the name is not found, then nothing is printed, and an exit status of false is returned. If the -p option is used, type either returns the name of the disk file that would be executed if name were specified as a command name, or nothing if ``type -t name'' would not return file. If a command is hashed, -p prints the hashed value, not necessarily the file that appears first in PATH. If the -a option is used, type prints all of the places that contain an exe cutable named name. This includes aliases and functions, if and only if the -p option is not also used. The table of hashed commands is not con sulted when using -a. type returns true if any of the arguments are found, false if none are found. //Anders