07-10-2006
Again, why not shoot off "Hey, try man find / bash / whatever". It's all documented. None of us are providing anything that is not available elsewhere. There are some times when a flip remark is appropriate. One example is when a user posts "Hey, I've tried nothing, I'm all out of ideas, please provide a working script to do X". In this case, however, the user did not do that. A genuine effort was made. If you don't feel like responding, that's OK, no skin off your hide. But if you blow enough people off, it's unlikely that the search terms will ever bring anything more than pointers to other "Do the search yourself" posts. The value of this forum is that others with a genuine interest in the best solution will share their expertise.
To counter your claims, I'll answer one by one:
* The answer to their question
** I answered it, didn't I?
* The answer to some other question they have
** As likely as if a user says "Hey, neat solution. Mind explaining how it works?" There's your teach-to-fish in action, rather than the same regurgitated inefficient methods (see next point.)
* A better way of doing something they already do in an inefficient way
** Most of the suggestions in the search results for "rename files" were inefficient. Is it neceaary to fork a new sh, a find, and several sed's to rename a file intelligently? No. May not be a big issue, unless you're in a large environment, with thousands of directories, thousands of files in each, on a GFS filesystem... I provided a more efficient way.
* The knowledge that there is a seach engine on this site
** That's easy. How about "Hey, try searching for \"foo\". It's already been answered."
Knock off the petty snobbery, and either provide a helpful pointer, even if it's an example search link, or save your time.
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