[Coco] Modest proposal re: toolshed

[Kelly Anderson]

On 12/30/10 08:51, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> Boisy, et al,
>
> Would anyone besides myself find it useful if the toolshed 
> informational utilities (e.g. os9 dir) had an unadorned output mode 
> that was sensitive to whether or not the list device was a tty?  For 
> example, rather than, e.g.
>
>
> (blank line)
>                            Directory of 
> nos96809l2v030209coco3_becker.dsk,SYS
> stdfonts        stdpats_2       stdpats_4       stdpats_16      stdptrs
> ibmedcfont      isolatin1font   motd            helpmsg         errmsg
> password        inetd.conf
>
> we had this if redirected to a file:
>
> stdfonts
> stdpats_2
> stdpats_4
> stdpats_16
> stdptrs
> ibmedcfont
> isolatin1font
> motd
> helpmsg
> errmsg
> password
> inetd.conf
>
> ?
>
> At a minimum, it would make shell scripting significantly easier.  My 
> immediate motivation is to streamline the system-disk creation process 
> as performed in Nitros-9.
>
> Another idea:  Why not have the toolshed modification utilities 
> understand wildcards?  So, rather than explictly listing a sequence of 
> copied files for attr changes:
>
> os9 attr -q -npe -npw -pr -ne -w -r 
> nos96809l2v030209coco3_becker.dsk,DEFS/OS9Defs
> os9 attr -q -npe -npw -pr -ne -w -r 
> nos96809l2v030209coco3_becker.dsk,DEFS/RBFDefs
> os9 attr -q -npe -npw -pr -ne -w -r 
> nos96809l2v030209coco3_becker.dsk,DEFS/SCFDefs
> os9 attr -q -npe -npw -pr -ne -w -r 
> nos96809l2v030209coco3_becker.dsk,DEFS/SysType
> os9 attr -q -npe -npw -pr -ne -w -r 
> nos96809l2v030209coco3_becker.dsk,DEFS/VTIODefs
> os9 attr -q -npe -npw -pr -ne -w -r 
> nos96809l2v030209coco3_becker.dsk,DEFS/Defsfile
>
> you could simply do:
>
> os9 attr -q -npe -npw -pr -ne -w -r 
> nos96809l2v030209coco3_becker.dsk,DEFS/*
>
> If I'm the only person wishing for these, I'm probably not going to 
> bother, but if it would be of general use then I'll take a look at 
> implementation.
>
>
> Steve
>
>
>
Even though I haven't been working with toolshed much lately.  If and 
when I start using it again, it would be very nice to be be able to get 
scriptable output from dir, etc.  As well as wildcard directory 
listings.  I work entirely in Linux and those feature dovetail very 
nicely into my typical workflow.  For anything complicated that I intend 
to do more than once I write a script.