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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next prev parent 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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