On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Andrew Benton wrote:
> Another tool to find out information about a file is stat, part of
> coreutils.
Or just use file, which is part of File (the package).
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On 24/06/10 22:12, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Neal Murphy wrote:
>> Both of the following commands display the symlink's target:
>>ln -s /bin/sh
Won't that just make a symbolic link to /bin/sh in the current directory?
>>readlink /bin/sh
>
> Or more conventionally:
>
> $ ls -l /bin/sh
> lrwxrwxrw
On Thursday 24 June 2010 17:12:06 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Neal Murphy wrote:
> > On Thursday 24 June 2010 16:25:45 Franz L. Kuhlmann wrote:
> >> ...
> >> ### I think the /bin/sh symlink is ok, (didn't try it in new shell yet -
> >> how do I do that BTW???)
> >
> > Both of the following commands displa
Neal Murphy wrote:
> On Thursday 24 June 2010 16:25:45 Franz L. Kuhlmann wrote:
>> ...
>> ### I think the /bin/sh symlink is ok, (didn't try it in new shell yet -
>> how do I do that BTW???)
>
> Both of the following commands display the symlink's target:
> ln -s /bin/sh
> readlink /bin/sh
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Franz L. Kuhlmann wrote:
> root:/sources/linux-2.6.32.8# ls
> COPYING Makefile block include mm sound
> CREDITS README crypto init net tools
> Documentation REPORTING-BUGS drivers ipc samples usr
> Kbuild arch firmware kernel scripts virt
> MAINTAINERS bash fs lib security
>
> root:/sources/linux-
On Thursday 24 June 2010 16:25:45 Franz L. Kuhlmann wrote:
>...
> ### I think the /bin/sh symlink is ok, (didn't try it in new shell yet -
> how do I do that BTW???)
Both of the following commands display the symlink's target:
ln -s /bin/sh
readlink /bin/sh
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root:/sources/linux-2.6.32.8# ls
COPYING Makefile block include mm sound
CREDITS README crypto init net tools
Documentation REPORTING-BUGS drivers ipc samples usr
Kbuild arch firmware kernel scripts virt
MAINTAINERS bash fs lib security
root:/sources/linux-2.6.32.8# make mrproper
CLEAN scripts/ba
On 18 June 2010 17:02, Franz L. Kuhlmann wrote:
> After having installed Ubuntu 9.10 I worked quite happily through the book
> up to section 8.1.
> However, after executing make oldconfig (since I felt to be safe with my
> rather ordinary desktop PC),
I hope you were running a recent kernel at t
After having installed Ubuntu 9.10 I worked quite happily through the
book up to section 8.1.
However, after executing make oldconfig (since I felt to be safe with my
rather ordinary desktop PC),
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