Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] gui wizard for shell scripting?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Michael wrote:

> Would it be a really stupid idea to make a GUI program that provides a
> wizard for building shell scripts? I was thinking it'd be a nifty
> tutorial/tool for working with shell scripts. A little tool that'd let
> you chain command line programs together by picking them from an
> available list and clicking the options you wanted to use. So you could
> visually see the input and output of each program and how they piped
> together.


If it's meant to be a teaching tool, or a working environment for newbies,
it could be a really good idea.  Here are some features that could make it
worthwhile:

(1) linking from the command list to man pages so that the user can easily
call up the man page for the program

(2) link to apropos lookup of commands so that the user can say "select
matching lines" and be told about grep, egrep, etc.

(3) quick access to info about syntax of "for", "while", "if", "elseif",
etc.  This could be a big help because it's such a hassle to look such
things up in the man pages.


Keep us posted on your progress.

Best,

Mike
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