From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QMn09-0008MM-Qa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 May 2011 20:05:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 851761C144; Wed, 18 May 2011 20:04:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C581C124 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 20:04:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 630B580145 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 21:04:09 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 21:04:08 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D Message-ID: <20110518210408.4b4015fd@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201105182103.47416.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <4DD1AEC8.5010501@earthlink.net> <20110518111724.127af1a3@digimed.co.uk> <201105182103.47416.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9cvs22 (GTK+ 2.24.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/gLDW37Mt.t3zYJJTFBlmtmG"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 712cce17ec8b41e31a93d0c3ec6717de --Sig_/gLDW37Mt.t3zYJJTFBlmtmG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 18 May 2011 21:03:47 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > They both have a steep initial learning curve, which leads to their > > adoption being put off. I put awk in the same category as screen, one > > of those programs that you hear people going on about for years, but > > always manage to put off trying them. Once you do try them, you use > > them for everything but slicing bread. =20 =20 > Add bash to that list. >=20 > Have you read the full man page for the bloody thing? It's better than the zsh man page, which is split into several pages. That sounds like a good idea, and it would have been if there had been some sort of index so you knew which page to look on. --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 46: Found missing --Sig_/gLDW37Mt.t3zYJJTFBlmtmG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk3UJjgACgkQum4al0N1GQNY0ACfUWt+V1GA1MqdJCjdxYnGIZQq eHQAoIgZjUs6JsfiiEIlRQPDNfxZTz8v =o0LI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/gLDW37Mt.t3zYJJTFBlmtmG--