On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 19:11, Bill Mullen wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:02, Michael Holt wrote: > > > > > > Ok, I ran /usr/lib/gpilotd and all is well. Now, what did 'file' tell > > > me beside the fact that this was an executable file? I noticed that > > > you said "if it's a *script* then it might tell you something useful." > > > I tried running file on some scripts; it seems to describe what type > > > of scripts you're looking at. Is that what you were getting at? > > > > yeah, if file says it's a script, then you vi -R the script and see what > > it does (-R means read-only :-) > > Also worth knowing is that "view" is equivalent to "vi -R" (and quite a > bit easier to remember) ... "gview" is the same as "gvim -R", also ...
just beware wq! will override the read only status of the file. James
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