On Tue 03 Sep 2019 at 09:49:45 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 06:49:38PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > Exactly; so
> > cat afile | some-filter …
> > is just the degenerate of the general case
> > cat somefiles* | some-filter …
> > where there happens to be only one
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 06:49:38PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> Exactly; so
> cat afile | some-filter …
> is just the degenerate of the general case
> cat somefiles* | some-filter …
> where there happens to be only one filename matching somefiles*.
> So if you start prototyping some complic
On Sun, 1 Sep 2019 at 00:39, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2019-08-31 at 10:07, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 09:26:49AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> >> On 2019-08-31 at 09:02, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> >>
> >>> The only time you need to change the syntax is to add something
>
On Sat 31 Aug 2019 at 11:19:38 (-0400), Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 10:02:43AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sat 31 Aug 2019 at 10:07:01 (-0400), Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 09:26:49AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > >
> > > > It also loses an
On Sat 31 Aug 2019 at 11:31:34 (-0400), Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 10:26:34AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sat 31 Aug 2019 at 11:11:43 (-0400), Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 10:39:00AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > > > On 2019-08-31 at 10:07,
On 2019-08-31 at 11:56, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 11:38:59AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>> Just because I only type the command once doesn't mean that I want
>> to type a more complex command than I need to.
>
> Whereas I'd rather front-load the complexity for the repea
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 11:56:48AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 11:38:59AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
[...]
> > I don't suppose you know of any shells which have that behavior, even as
> > an option?
> >
> I am not aware of such a shell, though I have a vague recoll
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 11:38:59AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> I don't think I'd prefer it, because it would mean I'd have to remember
> where I left the cursor last time rather than being able to just assume
> it will always be in a particular position, but I can see that being
> just a result
On 2019-08-31 at 11:38, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2019-08-31 at 11:11, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>> Don't misunderstand me. I sometimes start interactive command
>> lines with 'cat' followed by a pipe. When I do that it is out of
>> convenience more than anything else. However, if I am writing
On 2019-08-31 at 11:11, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 10:39:00AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> On 2019-08-31 at 10:07, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>>
>> I actually think this is good behavior. The only obvious places to
>> put the cursor when doing command history are at th
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 10:26:34AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 31 Aug 2019 at 11:11:43 (-0400), Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 10:39:00AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > > On 2019-08-31 at 10:07, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > >
> > > I actually think this is good beha
On Sat 31 Aug 2019 at 11:11:43 (-0400), Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 10:39:00AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > On 2019-08-31 at 10:07, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> >
> > I actually think this is good behavior. The only obvious places to put
> > the cursor when doing command h
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 10:02:43AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 31 Aug 2019 at 10:07:01 (-0400), Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 09:26:49AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> >
> > > It also loses an important benefit when building and tweaking such
> > > pipelines by hand:
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 10:39:00AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2019-08-31 at 10:07, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>
> I actually think this is good behavior. The only obvious places to put
> the cursor when doing command history are at the beginning of the line
> and at the end, and for convenienc
On Sat 31 Aug 2019 at 10:07:01 (-0400), Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 09:26:49AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > On 2019-08-31 at 09:02, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> >
> > > The only time you need to change the syntax is to add something
> > > before sed. But then, that's why
On 2019-08-31 at 10:07, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 09:26:49AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> On 2019-08-31 at 09:02, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>>
>>> The only time you need to change the syntax is to add something
>>> before sed. But then, that's why shells have I/O r
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 09:26:49AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2019-08-31 at 09:02, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>
> > The only time you need to change the syntax is to add something
> > before sed. But then, that's why shells have I/O redirection:
> >
> > (sed 's/config=.*$/config=/g' | tr -d
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