[Nottingham] Re: Quick! I need a bash one liner!

[Michael Erskine]

On Wednesday 02 February 2005 12:48, James Gibbon wrote:
> Well, for what it's worth - you don't need to use ; in place of
> newlines to do that, you can use the return key with impunity :D

That's neat. 

When I was learning how to get "for" working yesterday (by trial and error), I 
was regularly confronted with ">" because bash needed more info. I knew that 
this was the bash continuation prompt but didn't know how to complete the 
statement!

Regards,
Michael.

-- 
Now I know someone out there is going to claim, "Well then, UNIX is intuitive,
because you only need to learn 5000 commands, and then everything else follows
from that! Har har har!"
(Andy Bates in comp.os.linux.misc, on "intuitive interfaces", slightly
defending Macs.)