Blind Spot Mirrors 740

Conor

Nope. By the time you've started your news client to count the groups the Unix method has finished.

For more than a screenful of items? For a hierarchy of files? In text form?

Flexibility is *exactly* what I'm talking about. Even Microsoft tellyou to go to the command line and write a batch file to do it. Like I said, if Windows does it already, it's easy. If it doesn't it's *at least* as hard as the Unix way.

Well it depends what you call 'used'. If you mean installing, configuring and administering Server 2K, SBS 2003 and Server 2003, debugging and overhauling Active Directory setups and that sort of thing, then yes I've 'used' it. Although that's not at all what we're talking about here, and you know it.

BTW I'm not anti Windows but I don't try to pretend it's better than it is.

My day-to-day Windows box always has Cygwin on it so I can use grep, sed, tr, od, dd and all those other useful things that Windows doesn't come with. But I quite appreciate that most people don't need and wouldn't use those things.

However, to say:

is to admit that Windows does the simple stuff more easily than Linux (sometimes) but that when you step outside the Windows 'comfort zone' it suddenly gets much more difficult than it ever would be under Linux..