When I, an linux and unix novice, find that commands I am entering are not yielding the results I expect how do I know if this failure is caused by a program bug, an error in the book or man page, my error or something else? For example on page 104 of "Learning the Bash Shell" O'reilly there is the following command vi $(grep -l 'command substitution' ch*)
According to the text should load into the vi editor a file that is a list of the files in the PWD that begin with "ch" which contain the string "command substition". The man page for grep would seem to confirm this However when I typed vi $(grep -l 'linux' *.txt) it loaded all the documents into vi not a list of documents. Is the book wrong? And as long as I am here, I have noticed that the escape charactor in kermit does not work ^\. Neither does there seem to be anyway to exit dosemu other than killing the process. Finally, if any Debian users would be interested in working through some books together, sort of in an informal study group, please let me know and I will set something up. As always thank you all for any help Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
