Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> A reference manual is no substitute for an introduction.
> >
> >    Nobody every claimed that manpages are anything else than reference manuals.
> > Yet many unix users have learned to use most unix tools via their manpages.

> So it's not an introduction, and yet it's how most users introduce 
> themselves?

> Now don't get me wrong. For something trivial like ln or cp, the 
> reference manual is probably all you need. There's not much to learn, 
> after all. But for something as complex as Bash, some examples and 
> exposition would really help tremendously... I wasted literally *hours* 
> trying to work out how the **** to execute the same command for every 
> file in the current directory. In the end I was forced to do it by hand.

  I didn't say unix users have learned *all* tools via their manpages.
I just said it's the case with many (or even most) tools.

  (As for that particular problem, it's "for F in *; do echo $F; done",
or if you are using zsh, you can also write "for F (*) echo $F".)

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                                                          - Warp

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