RevOnline: New version of Shell Command Help

[Alex Tweedly]

There's not a nice simple command (afaik), but you can do something 
along the lines of (in a mix of LC and shell :-)

echo $PATH > tPaths
set the itemdel to ":"
repeat for each item tFolder in tPaths
    set the defaultfolder to tFolder
    put the files after tAll
end repeat
doSomeCleverFiltering  tAll            -- that's a library function you 
are assumed to have already written :-)
doSomethingToAddBuiltins  tAll     -- ditto


-- Alex.


On 06/01/2011 22:02, Peter Brigham MD wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>
>> Thanks pretty useful if you know already what the command is you need 
>> help with. Looks like you are getting the man pages via a shell call 
>> yourself.
>>
>> What would make this marketable is if there was a way to list all the 
>> shell commands available to the system and present them to the user 
>> in a list, have the user be able to click on a shell command and have 
>> the man page load, and then be able to insert the command into a rev 
>> script with the proper LiveCode syntax. I would pay money for that!
>>
>> Bob
>
> That was just my reaction to the stack -- great if you know what 
> you're doing already, but you have to know shell commands. (I dropped 
> it into my Plugins folder anyway....)
>
> Is there a shell command to get all the shell commands on the 
> currently running system? If so, it should be a snap to expand the 
> stack accordingly.
>
>> On Dec 28, 2010, at 1:55 AM, Phil Davis wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I just uploaded a new version of the Shell() Command Help plugin.
>>>
>>> New features:
>>> - Search for words in the displayed help text.
>>> - Print the displayed help text.
>>> - Use arrow keys to retrieve previous commands (like the LC message 
>>> box).
>>>
>>> Enjoy!
>>> -- 
>>> Phil Davis
>
> -- Peter
>
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>
>
>
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