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From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: chet.ramey@case.edu
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Warner's Early Unix Presentation
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2020 10:54:16 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgwdvS+iQSVuDY05aH5gzCXwb0L0h7=VudJDkANKtQ=KNg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20da6a39-c07b-fe42-c9fb-43bf3c54d179@case.edu>

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Well, "whatis" was a fine starter in 1983.

I'm not saying anything should change. This is a history list.

-rob


On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 10:36 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 2/8/20 6:29 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
> > % rc
> >
> > % whatis cd
> >
> > builtin cd
> >
> > %
> >
> >
> > It's much simpler this way. The output is the executable input, free of
> > decoration and ready to use.
>
> OK. `whatis' is a non-starter as a builtin, but bash ships with an example
> `whatis' shell function that does this.
>
> --
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-08 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-07 22:25 Warren Toomey
2020-02-07 23:57 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08  0:43   ` Warren Toomey
2020-02-08  3:37     ` Warner Losh
2020-02-08 15:15   ` Warner Losh
2020-02-08 21:50     ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 22:29       ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 22:54         ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:02           ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:11             ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:13               ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:21               ` Kurt H Maier
2020-02-08 23:26                 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:28                   ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:26               ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:29                 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:35                   ` Warner Losh
2020-02-08 23:36                   ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:54                     ` Rob Pike [this message]
2020-02-09  0:11                       ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-09  0:19                   ` Larry McVoy
2020-02-08 22:31       ` Richard Salz
2020-02-10 13:18       ` Tony Finch
2020-02-10 15:05       ` Dan Cross
2020-02-10 15:46         ` [TUHS] V9 shell [was Re: Warner's Early Unix Presentation] arnold
2020-02-10 18:39           ` Rob Pike
2020-02-10 18:59             ` Bakul Shah
2020-02-10 19:58             ` Angelo Papenhoff
2020-02-10 20:11               ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-11  9:33             ` arnold
2020-02-11  9:47               ` Noel Hunt
2020-02-11  9:47               ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11  9:59                 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11 17:05                   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-02-11 17:18                     ` Arthur Krewat
2020-02-11 18:22                     ` Kurt H Maier
2020-02-16 21:34                       ` Wesley Parish
2020-02-11 18:26                     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-02-11 23:56                       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-02-12  0:12                         ` Jon Steinhart
2020-02-12  1:03                           ` [TUHS] V9 shell Warren Toomey
2020-02-12  5:54                           ` [TUHS] V9 shell [was Re: Warner's Early Unix Presentation] Rob Pike
2020-02-11 17:36                   ` Dan Cross
2020-02-11 18:35                   ` Christopher Browne
2020-02-11 18:54                     ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11 21:36                     ` Harald Arnesen

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