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brighn
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Friend's filter
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Apr 10 06:35 UTC 1996 |
All this friend's list discussion was spawned by my suggestion that
there be some sort of friend's filter when using !user or !who...
rather than getting a long list of everyone who's on the system
(especially a problem with !who, since it's generally more than 24 users,
and my DOS software just lets the first half of the list scroll off the
top of the screen and into oblivion), the person using a filter would
get a listing of only those people on a certain list. A peek into my
plan would reveal a list of some thirty or forty people that I consider
friends, and my "friends filter" would certainly include more people
than that list involves. I'm not suggesting this to promote
cliquishness; most users, I imagine, scan the !users/!who lists
for specific names as it is. It would be a convenience.
I've been told that Ican write a shell, but it might be nice if
there was something more formal avaaible...
I'm posting this because Nephi apparently lost this topic in all
his item creation. =}
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robh
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response 1 of 7:
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Apr 10 09:06 UTC 1996 |
It should be easy enough to alias "who" to pipe it through
an egrep command and only print the users you want to check on.
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popcorn
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response 2 of 7:
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Apr 10 09:34 UTC 1996 |
To make the "who" command stop after every 24 lines, do
who | menumore
To make the "who" command look for selena, blondval, and shade, do:
who | egrep 'selena|blondval|shade'
How's that?
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remmers
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response 3 of 7:
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Apr 10 11:04 UTC 1996 |
I had something like that in mind when I said in another item
that it would be an easy script to write.
It'd be cumbersome to type the whole "who | egrep ..." thing in
every time. But egrep or something like it could be the basis
of a script that you'd invoke just by typing "friends" and
that would read the list of friends from a file named .friends
that you'd keep in your home directory. That way, you could
just edit the .friends file anytime your concept of who your
friends are changes, and the "friends" command would auto-
matically adjust.
Unless somebody beats me to it, I'll try to enter a solution
to that one later today when I've got some time.
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brighn
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response 4 of 7:
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Apr 10 21:03 UTC 1996 |
Works for me, Valerie, although I would like some macro, John.
Thanks =}
It's not just my three sweeties that I'm looking for, after all...
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robh
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response 5 of 7:
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Apr 10 22:02 UTC 1996 |
(Presumably brighn doesn't need to check to see if his wife
is on Grex, since they use the same computer. >8)
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brighn
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response 6 of 7:
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Apr 10 23:39 UTC 1996 |
True enough for blondval, Rob. =}
*giggles*
HEr mother *does* have a modemmed computer, which I use when I'm over
there, but the steps are weird enough to get in that Val doesn't.
And why am I gabbing about this in public? Sorry folks, I'll shut
up now.
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sidhe
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response 7 of 7:
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Apr 21 05:01 UTC 1996 |
I would enjoyt this option.
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