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Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

badiane — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:18:09 GMT

Hmmm, well the cool thing about Linux/UNIX is that one may have many shells and actually even use some scripting languages as shells. To be awe take a look at zsh. Download the grml live cd and experience it. http://grml.org/zsh/.

My 2 cents.

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

ajaxdev — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:14:35 GMT

Hi there guys.

Loved to learn about Monad from this video but I really want to
convince you of providing higher quality vids even if they are way
a larger download. Watched one video of Vista and it's impressive. Keep in my we niners want to read the text on the screens so it's way hard if the quality of the video is bad.

Roger Armas

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

s_jetha — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 02:44:54 GMT

Are there man pages?

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

Eric Golpe — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:24:40 GMT

Watched. IT ROCKED!! This is a MUST VIDEO!! You have made a believer out of me and I just heard about Monad 2 days ago!! This one will SO BE SHOWN to developers on what's coming down the pipe.

Please post links to a .chm or otherwise for the magic verbs and noun -? -? -PLEASE!!

Unix Admins. Be prepared to be -grep'ed yourselves.

Channel 9 Guy, DataMining, SQLServer labs + Monad ?? I'm blown away.... now I gotta get a foosball table :)

PS Jeff, Besides a much needed raise is that a doll in your office???

thoughts on Monad

indranilb — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 00:05:13 GMT

Its great that MS are finally going to give us some powerful command line tools. Its many years over due but Monad looks pretty cool.

They've clearly borrowed a lot from the Unix 'every thing is a file' Model. I like the way the Registry etc. are all mapped to drives under the monad root directory.

But how far do they go with this? Unix has something called the /proc filesystem. Under the /proc directory you'll find sub directories for each currently running process. Under each process directory there are further directories which list open file handles for that process and cpu usage, memory usage etc. This would be welcome in Monad as well as their get-process command.

The SQL-like querying of the output is definitely something new, with no real equivalent in Unix. This is something that would be very hard with Cygwin or bash. I wonder how all of this will tie in with WinFS? A lot of potential synergies there.

But the biggest innovation could also be a drawback. Everything seems to be an object in the Monad world. The input and the output of all these Cmdlets are objects, which is what allows us to run fancy queries on the output of the Cmdlets.

However this turns Monad into a closed system. Plain Unix is entirely text based, read text from STDIN write text to STDOUT or STDERR. This means that any commandline application could be used in a shell script. So I wonder how flexible Monad will really be?

For example, could I stick an existing network packet sniffing program into an MSH script and do all this funky querying of its output to debug network problems? Or do I have to write a C# Cmdlet wrapper around the exisiting tool before I can run it from my script?

Or could I run sql scripts against my database, and depending on the text output, send an email to the administrator saying the job had failed. Or do I need yet more C# Cmdlets?

The pure simplicity of the text in, text out Unix model made scripting easy, extensible and flexible. For Monad to succeed it will need to be all of those things

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

jorgen — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:29:29 GMT

Wow! Looks like I can scrap cygwin/perl whenever this baby is available...

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

jkhines — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:31:01 GMT

No matter how much I read about msh, seeing a demo always points out something new.

Tab completion nonwithstanding, I'm finding msh to be easier than cmd for everything, including simple string parsing: No need for findstr/cut/etc.

Please keep these coming!

Re: Remote MONAD?

jsnover — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:57:13 GMT

tigerfeat wrote:
Great stuff, but unless I missed something you didnt talk about managing another machine on the network as opposed to just your own local machine. It would be great to have a demo of that too... The kind of thing I'm thinking of is logging out those people who have forgotten to log out or shutting down certain processes right across a network, or something even more cool that I've not yet thought of but that you will no doubt be able to demonstrate!

At this point, the only way I can demo the remoting stuff is with hand puppets. :-)

It's going to be great but we just don't have the code to show it right now.

We'll be leveraging the WS-Management protocol to do remote management. What that means is that you'll be able to use the same protocol and cmdlets to manage the Pre-OS environment of your servers (once they have a WS-Management compliant MB-Controller [which the HW guys are developing]) and your OS-Present environment.

jps

Remote MONAD?

tigerfeat — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:18:27 GMT

Great stuff, but unless I missed something you didnt talk about managing another machine on the network as opposed to just your own local machine. It would be great to have a demo of that too... The kind of thing I'm thinking of is logging out those people who have forgotten to log out or shutting down certain processes right across a network, or something even more cool that I've not yet thought of but that you will no doubt be able to demonstrate!

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

Tom Servo — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:12:43 GMT

Chances are that it might also be called "Windows Command Shell", at least that's what the preview setup file is called currently.

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

nektar — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:59:52 GMT

I hope that they ship it soon. I do not want to wait for 2 years plus for it to be officially released. This is usually the problem. Microsoft has good ideas but until they are shipped they are out of date. I hope that Monad will be released in a few months at least. And please keep the name Monad and do not call it MSH. Monad sounds better because it is more original than MSH.

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

rasx — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 05:29:15 GMT

This rocks in ways erstwhile thought not rockable! This video is so downloaded!

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

earnshaw — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:31:18 GMT

This is really, really good. Can't wait to get my hands on it. Probably is no technical reason to delay its release until Windows 2005 Server. Hope against hope that the user doc is really good, too.

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

farquhar — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:42:05 GMT

I am SO ready to use this. Please find a way to ship it NOW! I need it yesterday.

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

Maurits — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:43:38 GMT

I sort of like the current Copy/Paste (why would you Cut?) - Highlight/Enter to Copy, right-click to paste. Very similar to PuTTY

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

Manip — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:07:53 GMT

I hope they make Cut/Copy/Paste better than the current CMD tool. (CTRL-C, CRTL-V etc)

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

scobleizer — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:23:23 GMT

No cut, my battery died. Sorry about that.

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

sn1p3t — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 05:07:03 GMT

staceyw wrote:
Looks like maybe they "cut" out a part during talk on SQL like processing. Was there a cut or a blip in my vid?

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I saw that too. Must have been cut out.

manickernel wrote:
Wicked Cool... I am going to have to watch this a dozen times for saturation... any links to White Papers?

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Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

manickernel — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:26:01 GMT

Wicked Cool... I am going to have to watch this a dozen times for saturation... any links to White Papers?

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

William Stacey — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:22:13 GMT

Looks like maybe they "cut" out a part during talk on SQL like processing. Was there a cut or a blip in my vid?

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Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

Horshu — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:19:00 GMT

staceyw wrote:

Actually, there is a few beta users that are working on their own hosts. Myself, I would like to see something similar to the SQL command utils. Where you have a command window and a results window, etc. As a c# user, I would also like to see deep integration of msh into the cmd/immediate windows and internal scripting in VS.Net.

cmdlets are user commands (c# dlls) that msh invokes and your dll becomes part of the pipeline for inspection or injection in the pipeline.

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Funny you should mention that...I wrote my own CLR app (for communicating with a multi-component distributed app) that is similar (piping, including scripts, everything's an object) but has a mIRC-like interface (input textbox on the bottom and output text above, but I allow the input textbox to be switched from single line to expandable). It's really interesting when the thing "speaks" .Net, because the power you expose is unreal. For instance, mine really talks to a finite set of components, but because it's .Net, it could probably talk Monad, too, and vice versa.
I really like some of the aspects of Monad, but not being a CLI person myself, I didn't "get" the format in terms of how you pass/pipe things...could be because watching Jeffrey type in commands, I couldn't really understand the format being parsed...too flexible I guess. Mine supports ">" and "<" bi-directional parsing (fully configurable, as the pipes are just "sentence" delimiters, so I guess I could add |), <verb> <noun> <params> formatting, script support, but I defined a very restricted sentence format with all the complexity in the piping order. Monad kinda blew my notion of a grammar out the window, so I'm still trying to wrap my head around it :)

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

William Stacey — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:51:15 GMT

"I'm probably being too picky, but I was hoping it would have a richer CLI UI rather than being so similar to cmd.exe"

Yes, many using the beta wish the same including myself. They are focused on RC1 and have a lot of work in the nuts and bolts. They currently view cli ui as something that can come latter. The current UI is the same one any console APP uses. MSH.exe is just a plain old c# app that loads DLLs. The MSH engine is a collection of DLLs that the MSH console app hosts. You will probably see many user attempts at MSH hosts/GUI/CUI apps. Actually, there is a few beta users that are working on their own hosts. Myself, I would like to see something similar to the SQL command utils. Where you have a command window and a results window, etc. As a c# user, I would also like to see deep integration of msh into the cmd/immediate windows and internal scripting in VS.Net.

cmdlets are user commands (c# dlls) that msh invokes and your dll becomes part of the pipeline for inspection or injection in the pipeline.

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wjs, mvp

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

NOP4e71 — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:59:15 GMT

Yep, it was there even in NT4 (not sure which SP) though it didn't really work that well and could occasionally crash CMD.EXE. (I used to copy the cmd.exe from Win2k beta to my NT4 workstation ;-) It has nice features like it expands wildcards and you can SHIFT-TAB to step backwards through the possible matches when you have been TAB-ing too much. The not so nice feature is that if you edit an existing command line and use tab somewhere in the middle of the string, it will trash all the characters between the cursor and the end of the string. (something that bash doesn't do). About GUI features: What I really hope is that it will be possible to resize the console window without clicking 123 buttons like now. It's a big plus of xterm and rxvt. Transparency would also be cool of course ;-) Well, going to watch the video.

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

Maurits — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:48:45 GMT

Horshu wrote:
Win2K has tab-completion as well; it just isn't enabled by default. Check out HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor in your registry.

WOW!

Learn something new every day.

Re: Jeffrey Snover - Monad demonstrated

Horshu — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:07:24 GMT

Win2K has tab-completion as well; it just isn't enabled by default. Check out HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor in your registry.
I'm probably being too picky, but I was hoping it would have a richer CLI UI rather than being so similar to cmd.exe (one big textbox). It doesn't need to be a very visual GUI, but there are areas where UI controls can enhance the CLI experience. I know purests might cringe at adding any UI elements (even menu bars), but they can be added without making them necessary to using the tool