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- From: duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: OS differences and improvements (Was Re: new PC's, what's happening acorn?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.085444.22813@rtf.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 08:54:44 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.080035.15100@rdg.dec.com> <1992Sep2.104759.2124@bnr.co.uk>
- Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK
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- In article <1992Sep2.104759.2124@bnr.co.uk> ajdh@bnr.co.uk (Andrew J D Hurley) writes:
- >
- >ls suggests LiSt which is what it does, cat suggests CATalogue - a little
- >obscure, lpr suggests Line PRint (or Laser PRint) which is what it does, grep
- >is Get Regular ExPression and so on. Ok, some are a little obscure but they
-
- #pragma pedantic_mode_on
-
- "cat" (should) actually suggest concatenation (which someone has
- already correctly pointed out in this thread). This command is
- not a good example as the resulting functionality (displaying text
- on the screen) is really a side-effect; the output would normally
- be redirected to another file, and the input would normally consist
- of multiple files.
-
- "grep" actually stands for "global regular expression print" (which
- someone has also already correctly pointed out in this thread), which
- is the command you'd give to sed (g/<re>/p) to obtain the same
- results.
-
- You're not helping us win this war :-)
-
- Anyway this thread's getting a bit dull. Lets bury the hatchet and
- just say that all operating systems have good and bad points (expect
- for MS-DOS which just has bad points :-).
-
- #pragma pedantic_mode_off
-
-
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- Andy Duplain, BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK. duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk
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