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From: Nathaniel <[email protected]>
To: Chris Robinson <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, 10 April, 2011 9:51:50 PM
Subject: Re: Simplifying getting started with the Command Line
I'm sure this would be possible.
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Absolutely, in about three lines of code.
If you want to see what it looks like, paste the following into your ~/.bashrc
file:
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# Nathaniel's one time man -k prompt
if [ ! -f ~/.bashflag ]; then
echo "First time here? try man -k <keyword> to get you started"
echo "Also Google bash tutorial"
echo Done > ~/.bashflag
fi
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make a backup copy of your .bashrc file first:
cp ~/.bashrc ~/bashrc.bkup
and when you're finished copy the backup back again:
cp ~/bashrc.bkup ~/.bashrc
Then remove the flag file that was created:
rm ~/.bashflag
The use of .bashflag is a bit of a kludge, done because I really didn't wan't
to
mess with any of the bash init files. Note that files starting with a '.' are
hidden files.
Chris.--
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