On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:48 AM, Hans J Albertsson
wrote:
> Powershell is a very good cmd language, so bash and other unix shells might
> do well to adopt some ideas from there.
Show-Command is one of the bigger missing killer features. It's not
really implementable either since bash can't possib
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:51 PM, wrote:
> hmm. but can I use a wildcard with any of them. For example search for all
> commands which contain the word "nice". Which would bring up ionice.
>
compgen -c | grep nice
hmm. but can I use a wildcard with any of them. For example search for all
commands which contain the word "nice". Which would bring up ionice.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:50 PM, wrote:
> > How do you search for commands? In powershell you have the get-command
> cmdlet. Is there anything equivalent in unix?
>
> Depends on the type of command. For shell builtins, bash has `help':
>
>
Thanks for your useful input.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Hans J Albertsson <
hans.j.alberts...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Help in bash seems to do most of what's actually needed.
>
> Hans J. Albertsson
> From my Nexus 5
> Den 24 feb 2015 11:48 skrev "Hans J Albertsson" <
> hans.j.alberts...@g
Help in bash seems to do most of what's actually needed.
Hans J. Albertsson
>From my Nexus 5
Den 24 feb 2015 11:48 skrev "Hans J Albertsson" :
> Powershell is a very good cmd language, so bash and other unix shells
> might do well to adopt some ideas from there.
>
> Normally, cmd search is only d
Powershell is a very good cmd language, so bash and other unix shells might
do well to adopt some ideas from there.
Normally, cmd search is only done thru completion in Unix shells, which was
an idea from tops 20 exec on Digital Equipment mainframes and early lisp
machines.
Get-command does more t
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:50 PM, wrote:
> How do you search for commands? In powershell you have the get-command
> cmdlet. Is there anything equivalent in unix?
Depends on the type of command. For shell builtins, bash has `help':
$ help '*ad'
Shell commands matching keyword `*ad'
