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Record-Keeping the last records in the file, giving an idea of how current the file's contents are. In a sorted comic book list, for example, tail could show the most recent comics that had been recorded in the file. The find command lists the names of all the files under a directory that have a given characteristic (or set of characteristics). The simplest version of the command is find dirname This just displays the names of all files under the given directory (including files in subdirectories under the directory). find dirname -name pattern displays the names of all files the names of which have a certain form. For example, find abc -name '*.lst' lists the names of all files under the directory abc which have the file extension.lst. In this way, find lets you locate files quickly, even when you have a complicated file system structure, with many directories and subdirectories. 26 MKS Toolkit
Programming Editing and Record Keeping 5 The Toolkit was inspired by UNIX, and UNIX is above all a programmer's system. The commands of UNIX are almost all aimed at simplifying various aspects of programming. As a result, MKS Toolkit commands are also strongly slanted towards the needs of a programmer. UNIX is particularly geared towards the C programming language, and therefore the MKS Toolkit also has strong C programming capabilities. This doesn't mean that people programming in Java, Fortran, Pascal, etc. are out of luck—the MKS Toolkit has many general tools that can help any programmer. However, there are also a number of commands that are designed especially for the C programmer. In this section, we begin by looking at the general commands, then go on to the C related ones. In the chapters on text processing and record-keeping we discussed a number of commands that have programming applications. More detailed descriptions of these commands are found in those earlier sections; we will just cover highlights here. Before a programmer can run a program, the source code for the program must be entered. Naturally, this means using a text editor. You will find that the vi text editor is well-suited to the task of typing in code. The online vi tutorial discussed in the “Text Processing” chapter describes additional features of vi that are explicitly aimed at programmers (for example, facilities for invoking a compiler directly from vi). Basics of the MKS Toolkit 27
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