01-21-2011
Mac 10.6.6
(This is just hobby/personal use. I'm on a mac (10.6.6). I have been strictly Windows since 3.1 and I'm trying to get more familiar with what my mac is able to do. I know i'm able to open the terminal app and interface using unix commands, but I don't really know unix at all. I know there's tons of apps for macs to do simple things but are just wasting space and processing so I figured, I might as well learn the OS because that should cover about 90% of those apps. I don't prefer wasting system resources either, so I want to get optimal use out of my system. I really dig apps that use the system properly, and cleverly, rather than rewriting functions to do what's already available thru calling system commands.)
methyl: thanks for the reply. I was playing around with shell scripting trying to figure it out. I was under the impression that I could call unix commands like I would call functions in a oop language, then pipe commands together to get like a variable out of the output, then feed that into some other unix command. Am I looking at this the wrong way?
i.e. in the shell:
command (feed result to) search_for_result_from_previous_command (feed result to) echo_to_standard_output
You can do this sort of thing with unix, right? Because I can imagine endless possibilities with a system like this.
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ansi_ctrlu
term::ansi::ctrl::unix(n) Terminal control term::ansi::ctrl::unix(n)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
NAME
term::ansi::ctrl::unix - Control operations and queries
SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.4
package require term::ansi::ctrl::unix ?0.1?
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::import ?ns? ?arg...?
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::columns
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::rows
_________________________________________________________________
DESCRIPTION
WARNING: This package is unix-specific and depends on the availability of two unix system commands for terminal control, i.e. stty and
tput, both of which have to be found in the $PATH. If any of these two commands is missing the loading of the package will fail.
The package provides commands to switch the standard input of the current process between raw and cooked input modes, and to query the size
of terminals, i.e. the available number of columns and lines.
API
INTROSPECTION
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::import ?ns? ?arg...?
This command imports some or all attribute commands into the namespace ns. This is by default the namespace ctrl. Note that this is
relative namespace name, placing the imported command into a child of the current namespace. By default all commands are imported,
this can howver be restricted by listing the names of the wanted commands after the namespace argument.
OPERATIONS
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw
This command switches the standard input of the current process to raw input mode. This means that from then on all characters typed
by the user are immediately reported to the application instead of waiting in the OS buffer until the Enter/Return key is received.
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw
This command switches the standard input of the current process to cooked input mode. This means that from then on all characters
typed by the user are kept in OS buffers for editing until the Enter/Return key is received.
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::columns
This command queries the terminal connected to the standard input for the number of columns available for display.
::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::rows
This command queries the terminal connected to the standard input for the number of rows (aka lines) available for display.
BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category term of
the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for
either package and/or documentation.
KEYWORDS
ansi, columns, control, cooked, input mode, lines, raw, rows, terminal
CATEGORY
Terminal control
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2006 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
term 0.1 term::ansi::ctrl::unix(n)