Re: Proposal for uname / cvs

2006-12-09 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 19:08:34 +0100, Igor Sobrado wrote: > The BSD operating > systems do not have the overfeaturism we can find in other OSes these > days Seems that it's about only me here who wants this simplification ... . I fully agree with your arguments on -possible change of tags -option

Re: Proposal for uname / cvs

2006-12-09 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hi Uwe. I see the advantages of your proposal but, as suggested in this thread and as you did, sed(1) can be very helpful in this matter. Just my opinion, but one of the best features in the BSD family of operating systems is that these operating systems are simple. The BSD operating systems do

Re: Proposal for uname / cvs

2006-12-09 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 07:04:22PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > > Thanks Darren, but I'd written this myself faster than it took me to write > the message. I am still sure, that most users, including writers (and > updaters) of the FAQ would profit from this addition. The FAQ is full of > this `arch`

Re: Proposal for uname / cvs

2006-12-09 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 02:46:34 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: > uname -sr | tr '[:lower:] .' '[:upper:]_' > > Somehow I think changing scripts is a better solution in this case. Or > copy the above into a new script named uname-cvs. ;) Thanks Darren, but I'd written this myself faster than it took

Re: Proposal for uname / cvs

2006-12-09 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 05:23:19PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > I happen to have more and more systems that identify as > $ uname > OpenBSD > which is good. One way or another. > > One item that tends to go wrong here is cvs, where I have some scripts > doing cvs regularly, and I lose track of the v

Re: Proposal for uname / cvs

2006-12-09 Thread Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse
Are you afraid of unleasing the powers of sed(1)?

Proposal for uname / cvs

2006-12-09 Thread Uwe Dippel
I happen to have more and more systems that identify as $ uname OpenBSD which is good. One way or another. One item that tends to go wrong here is cvs, where I have some scripts doing cvs regularly, and I lose track of the version while upgrading by re-using the scripts. In cvs it is OPENBSD_4_0 a