On 02/03/2011 07:41 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
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> Man uses less for display. To learn more about it, use
this is true. but then he would have to have 2 terminal windows open until
he learns more commands. ;)
after which, he can learn 'info', as poc suggested, and then he will have
a whole new comman
On 02/03/2011 06:49 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
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> Actually, I am intimately familiar with man pages; however, the only
> commands I know are space bar, 'b', 'q' and the mouse wheel.
then you need to become more intimate with 'man'.
run;
man man
while there, press key.
may you intima
On 02/03/2011 10:49 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Actually, I am intimately familiar with man pages; however, the only commands
> I
> know are space bar, 'b', 'q' and the mouse wheel.
Man uses less for display. To learn more about it, use
man less
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g wrote:
> maybe not for some who are not used
> to man pages.
Actually, I am intimately familiar with man pages; however, the only commands I
know are space bar, 'b', 'q' and the mouse wheel.
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On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Joe Zeff wrote:
>
>> You might find what you need at http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't have the time to read a book just to
> find out the meaning of ` and learn that it is not the same as '.
>
Le
On 02/02/2011 07:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 17:59 -0700, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
>> g wrote:
>>
>>> man bash
>>
>> The man page for bash is the worst one of all! I use man all the time for all
>> kinds of commands, but anything to do with bash directs you to this
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 17:59 -0700, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> g wrote:
>
> > man bash
>
> The man page for bash is the worst one of all! I use man all the time for all
> kinds of commands, but anything to do with bash directs you to this bash
> page,
> meaning you have to pore over hundreds
On 02/02/2011 10:55 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/02/2011 01:32 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> I recommend reading up on bash to fully understand this last part. It's
>> not trivial to explain.
>
> You might find what you need at http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
i believe poc was just stating that
On 02/03/2011 12:59 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
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> The man page for bash is the worst one of all!
not really. using '/' to look for what you want to know about makes it
very informative. at least for me. maybe not for some who are not used
to man pages.
> I use man all the time for all kin
g wrote:
> man bash
The man page for bash is the worst one of all! I use man all the time for all
kinds of commands, but anything to do with bash directs you to this bash page,
meaning you have to pore over hundreds of separate entries in the vain hope of
finding something relevant to your que
Joe Zeff wrote:
> You might find what you need at http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't have the time to read a book just to
find out the meaning of ` and learn that it is not the same as '.
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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Of course they do. They are entirely different things. The first one is
> for quoting strings which might contain Shell metacharacters. The second
> is to execute a command and insert its output as the value of the
> string, e.g.
>
> ls -l `find ~/.kde`
>
> This is e
On 02/02/2011 01:32 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I recommend reading up on bash to fully understand this last part. It's
> not trivial to explain.
You might find what you need at http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
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On 02/02/2011 09:32 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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> I recommend reading up on bash to fully understand this last part. It's
> not trivial to explain.
or to understand.
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On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 13:43 -0700, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> What is the difference in a bash script when one places something between
> single quotes:
>
> - using the apostrophe, '
> - using the accent grave, `
>
> ?
>
> Eg.,
>
> ps -fu 'whoami'
> ps -fu `whoami`
>
> They produce entirel
On 02/02/2011 08:43 PM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> What is the difference in a bash script when one places something between
> single quotes:
single/double quotes and grave are something i tend to forget sometimes.
i find it quicker, easier and refreshing to run
man bash
the search on th
Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> ps -fu 'whoami'
This just passes the text whoami as a group argument with no execution
of whoami.
ps -fu whoami
^
Equivalent command
> ps -fu `whoami`
The accent graves tell bash to execute the text inside them. The whoami
command will be executed then passed to
What is the difference in a bash script when one places something between
single quotes:
- using the apostrophe, '
- using the accent grave, `
?
Eg.,
ps -fu 'whoami'
ps -fu `whoami`
They produce entirely different results.
There are many other places where one might wish to put a command, va
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