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jameshanley39@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


My point is that from the little I know of linux, the reality is more
complicated. e.g. there are commands that do one thing well and another
thing in a messy way.

There are quick 90% solutions and long 100% solutions in places where
there could easily be a short 100% solution. I'll give an example of
this at response to the next paragraph, with a BUT. note- Within that
respone to ten et paragraph, the example is there, about displaying
only files [file that aren't directories] with ls.


OK, I understand you..

I think one small piece of advice might help. Stop thinking about "how
to I get X to do Y" and instead ask "How to I get this result?".
That's helpful here on the newsgroups especially.

For example, your mention of "ls" is solved by

find . -type f

And it's likely that the existence of "find" (which has much more
possiblities) influenced the design of "ls"- if anyone ever thought of
"ls" listing only files, they would have immediately thought of "find"
and realized they didn't need it.

Remember this too: Unix was here with find and ls long before DOS..
why didn't DOS "do it right"?

--
Tony Lawrence
Unix/Linux/Mac OS X Resources
http://aplawrence.com

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