g.man, g.cp, etc

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  >mccauley@ecn.purdue.eduwrites on Wed Jun 30 17:14:58 1993

  >> (btw, does anyone else think that "g.manual" a little long
  for a
  >> command name? :slight_smile:
  >>
  >> --Darrell
  >>

  >Not just too long, I like g.man better because it sounds unix.
  A lot of
  >students I teach are novices to GRASS and UNIX. I think they
  learn faster
  >if things are more consistent. So how about g.rm, g.cp instead
  of
  >g.remove, g.copy, etc.? It would really be great if the
  horrible
  >``option=name1,name2'' command line arguments would replaced
  for
  >unix syntax.

  >Raymond Venneker - Inst. of Earth Sc., Free University
  Amsterdam

Good idea! If you use csh or tcsh, add the lines:

    echo "alias g.man g.manual" >> $cshrc
    echo "alias g.rm g.remove" >> $cshrc
    echo "alias g.cp g.copy" >> $cshrc

to the file $GISBASE/etc/GIS.sh in the csh|tcsh alternative to the case
"$sh" statement. Is that clear as mud? Here's what I mean:

case "$sh" in

csh|tcsh)
    HOME=$LOCATION
    export HOME
    cshrc=$HOME/.cshrc
    tcshrc=$HOME/.tcshrc
    rm -f $cshrc $tcshrc
    echo "set home = $home" > $cshrc
    echo "set history = 30 noclobber ignoreeof" >> $cshrc

    echo "set prompt = '\\" >> $cshrc
    echo "Mapset <${MAPSET}> in Location <${LOCATION_NAME}> \\" >>
    $cshrc
    echo "GRASS 4.1 > '" >> $cshrc
    echo 'set BOGUS=``;unset BOGUS' >> $cshrc

    if [ -r $home/.grass.cshrc ]
    then
  cat $home/.grass.cshrc >> $cshrc
    fi

    if [ -r $home/.cshrc ]
    then
  grep '^ *set *mail *= *' $home/.cshrc >> $cshrc
    fi

    if [ -r $home/.tcshrc ]
    then
  grep '^ *set *mail *= *' $home/.tcshrc >> $cshrc
    fi

    if [ -r $home/.login ]
    then
  grep '^ *set *mail *= *' $home/.login >> $cshrc
    fi

    echo "set path = ( $PATH ) " | sed 's/:confused: /'g >> $cshrc

   ##########################################################

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   # Added by M. Camann 930630

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   ##########################################################

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   echo "alias g.man g.manual" >> $cshrc

<

   echo "alias g.rm g.remove" >> $cshrc

<

   echo "alias g.cp g.copy" >> $cshrc

<

    cp $cshrc $tcshrc
    $ETC/run $SHELL

    HOME=$home
    export HOME
    ;;

*)

  This will give you g.man, g.cp, and g.rm, though the options
  still do not adhere to unix conventions. You _could_ write
  shell scripts instead of simply using aliases and pass their
  arguments according to unix conventions without too much
  difficulty. Needless to say, you need write permission in
  $GISBASE/etc/GIS.sh in order to add the lines above.
  Of course, if you use some other shell, you'll have to modify
  the command accordingly.

Mike Camann
camann@dial.pick.uga.edu