And it's off to the list! -----Original Message----- From: David Armour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:40 PM To: Andrew Heyn Subject: Re: dmesg -a lines' explanation? NEWBIE
hello, thank you for your response. > Regarding grep, you got it half right. that is just *so* ME! :c) plugging your recommendation onto the command line produced: /etc/devfs.conf:perm xpt0 0666 #permissions are set properly at boot ... which is still largely un-intelligible to me, at the moment. and which co-incides, oddly enough, with the moment at which i have to leave for work! dang! so i'll have to take another google around, later tonight... > grep's command line can be made to look less scary like: > grep <options> <search string> <filename> yes. that helps. i did sort of think of it in those terms. > or grep -ri "something" /etc/* which searches recursively, and ignores > What you did when you didnt tell grep what file to use for input was i mis-read the manpage. > tell it to get info from the terminal (standard input)! Control-C would > quit grep, or control-d would tell grep "end of file" and stop grep. yes, i used crtl-c to quit. didn't know about crtl-d though. > I'm pretty sure that searching google a little bit can help you with > UNIX basics. there is a lot of stuff out there, i agree. making sense of it's another story though. thanks v. much for your help. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
