Use of *nix only commands in cli examples may confuse windows users

[gulpjs]

Use of *nix only commands in cli examples may confuse windows users

[yocontra]

Did anyone ever make a gulp init command or a useful help command? We can get rid of the touch command from the example if the CLI had a really helpful view.

[phated]

Yeah, I was pretty sure echo wasn't a "proper" echo in windows. 😦 I'm still considering a flag (like --init or something) to make this more cross-platform friendly.

[ansballard]

Well I haven't come up with any great options. There's the type command that's almost perfect, but the usage is different between OS's. The windows command is type NUL >> gulpfile.js, and nix is type >> gulpfile.js. So that still requires detecting what the user is running with javascript.

We could do it in node, which they need to run gulp in the first place, but it's dirty. node -e require("fs").writeFileSync("./gulpfile.js", ""), so I don't think that's viable, unless there's a more succinct way.

[phated]

I don't like many of those solutions. Could we add a BASH comment saying *nix only on that line or something? Or maybe or create this file?

[ansballard]

Tried both, I think I like or create this file better with the font. Sorry for the quality, kap decided not to work today.

or create this file:

http://i.giphy.com/26gs8CWLCrD3xYByw.gif

*nix only

http://i.giphy.com/l3q2PPDNhJLYushZS.gif

[sumnerevans]

Is echo "" > gulpfile.js or echo > gulpfile.js cross platform?

[ansballard]

Both commands leave some junk text in the file on windows. The first contains "" and the second ECHO is on.