I was talking to one of the younger geeks at my company and I said "And of course you've used command line FTP before, right?" I got a blank stare. It felt like such a generational difference. I felt old.

By the way, do you know the tip to get command completion on WinNT? It's sooooo useful for long file names.

In regedit check out:
HK_CU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor

Change CompletionChar from its default to 9 decimal (tab key). Then you can get a little more power from your dos shell....

I do have a "general purpose" batch
file that I use everyday that has this,
http://www.geocities.com/balanco01/photo_update.zip

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why can't I 'put *'?

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You can mput * (or mput *.* if this is DOS).

I was talking to one of the younger geeks at my company and I said "And of course you've used command line FTP before, right?" I got a blank stare. It felt like such a generational difference. I felt old.

I remember, back before the September that never ended, I mentioned FTPing a file from a server in Japan. The person I was talking to looked at me funny, and then asked if that was legal.

Originally posted by redelvis:
By the way, do you know the tip to get command completion on WinNT? It's sooooo useful for long file names.

Thank you! I hadn't got around to looking for it yet. Works better now.

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Originally posted by redelvis:
balanco00,

what made you feel like you needed to write one? Was there some feature you needed that didn't exist in others already?

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Originally posted by Greg Wooledge:
You can mput * (or mput *.* if this is DOS).

I have no idea why those are two separate commands in the standard command-line FTP client, though.

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Not sure, but I'd guess that the delta between put and mput is for batch usage of ftp. since put doesn't prompt, and mput * will prompt (unless you disable prompting), it lends a slight amount of safety in writing scripts.

In other words, I dunno.

Pete

Don't worry. You're not the only one who wrote a shell. I did too, though mine's rather short. Here it is:

#!/usr/bin/perl
while (<>) {eval; print $@; }

"All programs can be reduced to a Perl one-liner."

Typically have at least 6 terminals open at all times.

Its really the best way to go, 'cause X is so slow over the network.

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I was talking to one of the younger geeks at my company and I said "And of course you've used command line FTP before, right?" I got a blank stare. It felt like such a generational difference. I felt old.

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Originally posted by balanco00:

Has anyone here ever built their own command line interface (interpreter)
into a script or batch file (I
have no life ? I wonder if I am the
only one who has done it.

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Well hey, I'm 16 and do almost all that stuff (FTP, SCP, file management) with a CLI.

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Originally posted by Swiss Mercenary:
We are talking about those younger geeks who date girls, go out to bars or to sports games. You know, those who have a life.

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Those people are not geeks.

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Originally posted by minime:
Ouch! I wonder if there is some connection between CLI use and non-dating?

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It certainly fits -- Most CLI-lovin' geeks that I know rarely date. I can't say that that's a correlation I like to acknowledge, though...

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opiate

Yeah, it's kind of archaic to want to change the name ... this was back in the day when firing up the ftp client and ACTUALLY CONNECTING TO A DIFFERENT COMPUTER SYSTEM which might actually be in a DIFFERENT BUILDING was k-rad ...

I'll be installing Cygwin tomorrow morning. The voices in my mailbox told me to do it.

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Originally posted by MeckaMon:
Swiss Mercenary says:
[b]We are talking about those younger geeks who date girls, go out to bars or to sports games.

Those people are not geeks.
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OMG. Thank you thank you! I thought I was the only uptight, arrogant geek to think that way.

And, in regards to the thread topic: I'd prefer to run in a command line format. I was able to do that at my last ISP job and loved it. Eventually I'll build a 'nix box that is straight command line, and use that for most of my non-graphical work.

-Crystal