Hi, On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:20:01AM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Freitag, 6. November 2009 09:22:14 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net:
> > The Right (TM) alternative is simply: > > > > find -print0|xargs -0 > > Does it manage spaces in filenames? Well, it passes the whole file name as a single argument to the command. So it handles spaces just fine -- unless of course the command itself parses them, which would require additional acrobacy :-) > > > Most computer users nowadays never enter a shell - and never means > > > never, because they don't even know they have a shell. > > > (Admittedly, it would be much easier if shells were more "welcoming" > > and better integrated with the GUI stuff... > > Maybe the VRL project can give you some more ideas how that could > look: > > - http://www.mihosoft.de/software-projects/vrl/vrl-introduction.html > > It's written by a friend of mine (though we didn't have contact for > quite some time) and it effectively gives kind of a graphical shell: > users can graphically connect object output with other object input - > like pipes in a shell. > > -> example: http://www.mihosoft.eu/Media/Software Projects/VRL/VRL- > Introduction/vrl-screenshot1-full.png I have had my share of graphical programming: we had to use LabView in some university workshop. I didn't find it either more intuitive or more clear than text-based programming languages; rather the opposite -- in fact, I took the liberty to rant about it a bit in the protocol for our experiment :-) I guess though that it could be helpful in hooking people that wouldn't touch a traditional programming language with a ten-foot pole... Anyways, that's totally unrelated to what I'm talking about. The idea is actually quite simple (I think I mentioned it somewhere already, perhaps in the mail on the netrik ML I linked): every command has both a command line, and a GUI representation; you can use either. Furthermore, they always reflect each other -- i.e. when you operate some GUI elements, the equivalent text command is displayed too; and vice versa. This way you can mix both methods in a sigle command for maximum efficiency; and it also faciliates learning. Perhaps I should just put these three sentences in a blog article and be done with it :-) -antrik-
