On 27/11/2024 23:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
OTOH, the venerable groff has gained a hyperlink markup
recently [1] ("recently" in its time scale), thus bridging yet another
gap separating man and info.
Does it affect "man" when called in a terminal application (so usually
"less" is used as a pa
On 11/26/24 01:03, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> But there are no icons left on the desktop - no more Portal, and none of
> the utilities I downloaded were on my $PATH.
>
> How do the rest of you deal with all the user-added stuff that vanishes
> when you do a fresh install? Are there some tricks I can
On Wed 27 Nov 2024 at 05:38:30 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> I've used terminal commands for so many decades I don't know where to
> look up fine details of a specific commands.
>
> I just tried to use the cd command with a target directory having
> spaces in it's name. Of course the system res
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 4:27 AM George at Clug wrote:
>
> Curiosity got the better of me, so I installed "whois" and gave it a try.
>
> Below are the responses I get, for "$whois 191.96.36.56" and I tried a whois
> on the ip in "%ERROR:201: access denied for 190.112.52.14"
>
> I wonder what this
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 11:03:48AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44 -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> > One of the items on the list, under the characteristics of a
> > "knowledgeable user", is the entry:
> >
> > * has learned that learn doesn't help
> >
> > I have never
On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 04:35:13PM +0100, Roger Price wrote:
My understanding is that a Linux file system is a hierachical
structure starting with the root directory (/) which organises the
directories and files. The files are stored on various devices which
have identities such as /dev/sdxn,
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[...]
> > And yes, it's a pity there is no common frontend for both.
[help and man]
>
> There's also 'info foo', which for some values of foo will be more
> helpful than either of the
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 12:24:25PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2024-11-27 at 11:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> >
> >> On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> >>> And yes, it's a pity there is no common frontend fo
And, just for the record, should you want to find out more about
commands on Linux without leaving your system (i.e. without any
interaction with the Internet at all), the man command is available to
present the manual pages (dates back to when there was an actual manual
in early unix days) for ind
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 12:55:10 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> First: cd is not a command, it is a shell builtin
> (this is subtle, but important).
It's both. You can even call it a "builtin command".
> Second: even if cd were a "command", the splitting
> of args at whitespace (among *a lot*
On 2024-11-27 at 11:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>>> And yes, it's a pity there is no common frontend for both.
> [help and man]
>> There's also 'info foo', which for some values
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 02:18:02PM +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> And, just for the record, should you want to find out more about
> commands on Linux without leaving your system (i.e. without any
> interaction with the Internet at all), the man command is available to
> present the manual pages (dat
On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 14:36:44 +0100
wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 07:30:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Thank you. I've seen his site before. I just created a bookmark
> > folder for "Debian Wikis". The first occupant
> > is https://mywiki.wooledge.org .
>
> Greg's wiki i
On 11/27/24 7:36 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 07:30:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
Thank you. I've seen his site before. I just created a bookmark folder for
"Debian Wikis". The first occupant is https://mywiki.wooledge.org .
Greg's wiki is a jewel. I thank *h
Le 11/27/24 à 15:18, Eric S Fraga a écrit :
[...] the man command is available to
present the manual pages
There are also the fine info pages for most gnu software,
notably the coreutils,
and the /usr/share/doc directory for most other software.
Best,
--
yassine -- sysadm
+213-779 06 06 23
h
On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 02:18:02PM +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>
>> And, just for the record, should you want to find out more about
>> commands on Linux without leaving your system (i.e. without any
>> interaction with the Internet at all), the ma
I think I might have contracted a virus, but I'm not sure. I am running
Bookworm and have been using the Epyrus email client for some time now
without any problems.
Suddenly I am getting a popup that is quite insistent.
I have run ClamTk on /home/comp and /opt/epyrus, both are clean. The
so
Eric S Fraga wrote:
> And, just for the record, should you want to find out more about
> commands on Linux without leaving your system (i.e. without any
> interaction with the Internet at all), the man command is available to
> present the manual pages (dates back to when there was an actual manua
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44 -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> One of the items on the list, under the characteristics of a
> "knowledgeable user", is the entry:
>
> * has learned that learn doesn't help
>
> I have never managed to find out what 'learn' is supposed to have been.
> No Linux or othe
On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:50:33 -0500
"Stephen P. Molnar" wrote:
Hello Stephen,
>Where else might the errant string of DNA or RNA be hiding on my
>computer?
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=31786
--
Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}"
/ ) "
Stephen,
Can you please provide a bit more detail and your setup. To me the issue maybe
DNS record related, but I am not sure. I am guessing mail.stackmail.com
certificate has expired or is self-signed? But I am not sure how to check this.
Do you use any DNS caching on your computer? Can you t
On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 09:34:24AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 27/11/2024 23:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > OTOH, the venerable groff has gained a hyperlink markup
> > recently [1] ("recently" in its time scale), thus bridging yet another
> > gap separating man and info.
>
> Does it affect "ma
I've used terminal commands for so many decades I don't know where to
look up fine details of a specific commands.
I just tried to use the cd command with a target directory having spaces
in it's name. Of course the system responded
> bash: cd: too many arguments
DuckDuckGo led to [
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 05:38:30AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I've used terminal commands for so many decades I don't know where to look
> up fine details of a specific commands.
>
> I just tried to use the cd command with a target directory having spaces in
> it's name. Of course the system r
On 11/27/24 5:55 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 05:38:30AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
I've used terminal commands for so many decades I don't know where to look
up fine details of a specific commands.
I just tried to use the cd command with a target directory having space
On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 07:30:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
> Thank you. I've seen his site before. I just created a bookmark folder for
> "Debian Wikis". The first occupant is https://mywiki.wooledge.org .
Greg's wiki is a jewel. I thank *him* for it.
> I've been a computer *user* fo
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