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Re: straw poll: do you type a command on, at, or in the command line?
Subject:Re: straw poll: do you type a command on, at, or in the command line? From:John Cornellier <cornellier1 -at- stavanger -dot- oilfield -dot- slb -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Fri, 09 Jan 2004 17:24:38 +0100
Isn't the point of Googling for usage to get a relative quantity?
Anyway, I'd write "at the prompt" (114,000).
But don't tell any of those guys who are trying to steal my job.
John Cornellier
> I've already Googled this one, and the results were:
>
> "on the command line" = about 449,000 hits
> "at the command line" = about 69,400 hits
> "in the command line" = about 65,000 hits
>
> I don't consider 449,000 sufficiently large to be authoritative! What do
> Tech-WRLers think?
