Re: [Bug-wget] QuickStart tutorial

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Rahul Prasad <address@hidden> writes:

> 2010/10/15 Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden>
>
>     The user can learn how write a basic shell script.
>     
>
> So, you mean we should remove all the features which can be achieved
> by scripting.

Only those that can be _easily_ achieved by scripting.



> Why do you want to impose something on end user.
> It should be an end-user's decision to choose whether or even what he
> wants to learn.
>
> I totally disagree with you. A good software should always consider
> its end-users a novice.
>
> Sometimes in order to make our linux user community more
> "knowledgeable" or "advance" we forget that most people don't want to
> learn technical stuff.

We prefer to call it GNU/Linux, not just Linux.

We are not going to impose anything, there is nothing complicated in a
shell script expansion.
I don't think that "wget -batch 01-10 http://rahulprasad.com/pics/img[*].jpg";
is more understandable than "wget http://rahulprasad.com/pics/img{01..10}.jpg";,
not for an expert user nor for a novice one.
The latter is much more flexible, for example, how use the -batch
version to do something like: 
"http://rahulprasad.com/pics/{1..5}/img{01..10}.jpg";?

Also, as I have already said in this thread, shell expansions can be
used with other programs as well without learn a completely different
syntax; and this is a great advantage.

Cheers,
Giuseppe