[CLUE-Tech] The cp command

Kevin Cullis kevincu at orci.com
Sun Apr 22 23:11:41 MDT 2001


Jeff,

While I appreciate the clarification, I was primarily referring to the
various utilities which can be used together, i.e. piping, but thanks
for clearing it up.

Kevin

P.S. Nice to see you fixed your time :-)

Jeffery Cann wrote:
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> On Sunday 22 April 2001 16:02, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> > Thanks for the tip.  As always, the synergy of UNIX tools surpasses the
> > normal CLI.
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> Kevin,
> 
> Let me clear up this misconception:
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> UNIX utilities (e.g., cp, ls, find, grep, etc, ) + UNIX shell = CLI
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> The UNIX shell is basically worthless without the utilities.  The UNIX
> utilities are severely impaired without using the shell to glue them
> together.  This was not by accident - it is the core principle of UNIX (and
> Linux).



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