Laurence Berland writes:
> Optimally, you could write a urlsh or something, and leave everyone else
> alone. The shell could do substitutions on URLs just like they do on
> wildcards etc, and the applications would not need to be rewritten, plus
> you wouldn't add bloat to those of us who don't want this in the system...
It is possible if interfaces of utilities is fully standartized.
For example -p flag in any command means port number.
Such as
mutt -l user -h host.domain
as legal alternative of
mutt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Laurence
>
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Keith Stevenson wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:10:18AM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> > >
> > > I ran into a pair of all too common annoyances this morning that
> > > got me thinking. Via the magic of cut and paste I ended up with
> > > the following two sorts of command lines:
> > >
> > > mutt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > traceroute http://www.ufp.org/
> > >
> > > These of course come from the 'copy link location' available in
> > > most browsers. When pasted into most Unix commands (with the
> > > exception of fetch and lynx, of course) the result is something
> > > that just doesn't work. This got me thinking, should all commands
> > > know how to take an URL, and 'do the right thing'? Could this
> > > be made easy by providing a standard URL parsing library that
> > > all commands could use for parsing?
> >
> > Ick. If I wanted this kind of integration I would run Windows, KDE, or GNOME
> > instead of my nice, stable, predictable, lightweight desktop environment.
> >
> > In my opinion, the "URLification" of the user environment would be a negative
> > unless there were a very easy way to turn it completely off.
> >
> > Regards,
> > --Keith Stevenson--
> >
> > --
> > Keith Stevenson
> > System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville
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> Laurence Berland
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