From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Molitor, Stephen" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: EShell questions Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:49:24 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019850684 16022 127.0.0.1 (26 Apr 2002 19:51:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 19:51:24 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 171Bka-0004AB-00 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 21:51:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 171BkL-0004e3-00; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:51:09 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp1.erac.com ([65.197.19.21] helo=exicorp01.enterprise.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 171Bij-0004YP-00 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:49:29 -0400 Original-Received: from 10.9.163.21 by exicorp01.enterprise.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:46:06 -0500 Original-Received: by EXICORP01 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:46:06 -0500 Original-To: "'help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org'" X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:192 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:192 Sorry, I guess I didn't make myself clear; I dashed my post off in a hurry. My understanding was the one of the advantages of Eshell was that was cross-platform, and would work the same on any OS, if you restricted yourself just to stuff implemented in Eshell. So I was hoping to do things like 'find', and 'xargs', without relying on OS specific stuff (or Cygwin.) If the eshell built-in commands had help (--help), that would be nice. If they don't that's fine too. However, I've already answered some of my questions. For example, I can replace this: find . -name '*~' -exec rm -f {} \; With this: rm -f **/*~ Very cool! I guess that's a zsh style thing, but very powerful. Is this the best mailing list to talk about Eshell? Steve Molitor smolitor@erac.com -----Original Message----- From: G Anna [mailto:drguruolai@eth.net] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 10:54 AM To: Molitor, Stephen Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: Re: EShell questions > Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:18:39 -0500 > From: "Molitor, Stephen" > Subj: EShell questions > > 1. What's the closest thing to the Unix 'find' utility in EShell? > I'm looking for something that will find a bunch of files, and then > run a command on them, like 'find . -name '*~' -exec rm -f {} \;'. I believe that "find" is a separate program that should exist in your PATH for the shell to execute. What OS are you using? You might probably get a port of "find" for your particular OS. > 2. Is there an equivalent to xargs? Same here. They are separate programs. And you have to make them available. > 3. How to I get help on eshell commands? 'cp --help', 'cp -h', > etc. didn't seem to work. If you have the 'cp' program, then these would work. > 4. Eshell is great, and I found the home page. How do I get more > information on it? Is there a mailing list? >From Eshell documentation, (quote) As mentioned above, Eshell comes preinstalled as of Emacs 21. If you're using Emacs 20.4 or later, or XEmacs 21, you can download the most recent version of Eshell from http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/Emacs/eshell.tar.gz (end-quote) But nothing is mentioned about any mailing lists. Cheers, anna -- Get your free e-mail account at http://www.linuxmail.org