[REBOL] Re: pwd cd ls - anyone ??
From: jason:cunliffe:verizon at: 19-Apr-2002 20:33
> Not me. Having fun building some other unix-inspired things though (awk,
> grep, wc, make). Most of the simple things can be emulated pretty easily, as
> you have done, but if people have favorite tools from the *nix world (I'm
> not a *nix guy BTW), I think it would be worth putting an object of together
> for the library.
Good idea. We gotta build them first.
The recent thread on permissions is very helpful for good *nix emulation.
What would be nice is a way to just drop back into *nix for example:
>> *nix on
-- Unix/Linux commands enabled
>> cd /var/log/httpd
>> ls -la *
total 102437
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15018181 Apr 19 20:20 access_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29735151 Apr 14 04:02 access_log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21366565 Apr 7 04:02 access_log.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16358503 Mar 31 04:01 access_log.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18915088 Mar 24 04:02 access_log.4
>> httpd_log: ls -la *
--returns the result in a REBOL block or object
./Jason