Re: EShell questions

[G Anna]

> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:18:39 -0500
> From: "Molitor, Stephen" <SMolitor@erac.com>
> Subj: EShell questions
> 
> 1.  What's the closest thing to the Unix 'find' utility in EShell?
> I'm looking for something that will find a bunch of files, and then
> run a command on them, like 'find . -name '*~' -exec rm -f {} \;'.

I believe that "find" is a separate program that should exist in your
PATH for the shell to execute. What OS are you using?  You might
probably get a port of "find" for your particular OS.

> 2.  Is there an equivalent to xargs?

Same here.  They are separate programs.  And you have to make them
available.

> 3.  How to I get help on eshell commands?  'cp --help', 'cp -h',
> etc. didn't seem to work.

If you have the 'cp' program, then these would work.

> 4.  Eshell is great, and I found the home page.  How do I get more
> information on it?  Is there a mailing list?

>From Eshell documentation,

(quote)

As mentioned above, Eshell comes preinstalled as of Emacs 21.  If
you're using Emacs 20.4 or later, or XEmacs 21, you can download the
most recent version of Eshell from

http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/Emacs/eshell.tar.gz

(end-quote)

But nothing is mentioned about any mailing lists.

Cheers,
anna

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