On Tuesday 11 October 2005 03:34, Ron Joffe wrote:
Building (and understanding) these type of single line equations really is an art form (and to me is one of the real beauties of command line tools).
Ron
Hi Ron, The explanation you just provided is wonderfully succinct and clear, and I happen to share your keen appreciation for the beauty of the tools, but I have this longstanding, nagging feeling that I'm never going to attain the high level of fluency and proficiency to which I aspire. I've been experimenting with, and eventually using almost daily, various flavors of *nix for years... since SCO Xenix (SVR4?) on my PC-AT compatible (286 clone) circa '87/'88... and much less frequently on the usual RISC based systems (e.g. Solaris, IRIX, AIX...) To this day, I *still* have to constantly refer to man and info and '--help' and Google to accomplish a lot of my work. Is there any other way, besides hiring on as a systems administrator in a large-ish heterogeneous production environment, to commit a complete and fluent and natural "speaking" of this language to memory? regards, - Carl PS: You can tell I like to throw slow, easy softballs when I'm first getting acquainted with someone! :-)