On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 17:47:51 +0200
tastytea wrote:
> On 2022-10-07 17:25+0200 n952162 wrote:
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> > Am 07.10.22 um 16:56 schrieb Grant Taylor:
> > > On 10/7/22 8:25 AM, n952162 wrote:
> > >> Can anybody tell me how I can look at the official change history
> > >> of linux commands?
> >
On 10/7/22 11:10 AM, Matt Connell wrote:
Was more just laughing at myself for having used equery so frequently
for ~10 years and not knowing about the option.
Fair enough.
And if I was hiding it, I wouldn't have publicly replied that I
learned it :)
TIL
You accidentally struck a button
Matt Connell wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-10-07 at 17:47 +0200, tastytea wrote:
>> equery meta
> Ashamed to admit I learned of equery meta today. I'd previously been
> relying on eix to find, say, the website associated with a package.
>
>
I just checked that out and it is nifty. Now to remember the
On Fri, 2022-10-07 at 11:04 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote:
> I think that being ashamed about not knowing something tends to promote
> what I consider to be a negative stigmata that people should know
> everything and that they should hide what they don't know.
Was more just laughing at myself for
On 10/7/22 10:23 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
There's the Wayback Machine, which tries to archive all I/net pages ever.
Sadly, there are a lot of pages that the Wayback Machine a.k.a. The
Internet Archive doesn't have archived. TIA / WM is a best effort
system and is a lot better than not having
On 10/7/22 10:31 AM, Matt Connell wrote:
Ashamed to admit I learned of equery meta today. I'd previously been
relying on eix to find, say, the website associated with a package.
NEVER be ashamed to admit that you learned something.
Learning is a good thing.
It doesn't matter when you learn
On Fri, 2022-10-07 at 17:47 +0200, tastytea wrote:
> equery meta
Ashamed to admit I learned of equery meta today. I'd previously been
relying on eix to find, say, the website associated with a package.
On 10/7/22 8:25 AM, n952162 wrote:
> Can anybody tell me how I can look at the official change history
> of linux commands ?
There's the Wayback Machine, which tries to archive all I/net pages ever.
I've never used it, but it should have copies of man pages going back,
which would allow you to
> -Original Message-
> From: tastytea
> Sent: Friday, October 7, 2022 8:48 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Change History of linux commands
>
> On 2022-10-07 17:25+0200 n952162 wrote:
>
> > Am 07.10.22 um 16:56 schrieb
On Fri, 2022-10-07 at 17:47 +0200, tastytea wrote:
>
>
> /usr/bin/test was installed by sys-apps/coreutils
If you're using bash, the "test" command is actually built-in to the
shell to avoid forking a million processes in every shell script.
Am 07.10.22 um 17:47 schrieb tastytea:
On 2022-10-07 17:25+0200 n952162 wrote:
Am 07.10.22 um 16:56 schrieb Grant Taylor:
On 10/7/22 8:25 AM, n952162 wrote:
Can anybody tell me how I can look at the official change history
of linux commands?
Some man pages have history of commands in them.
On 2022-10-07 17:25+0200 n952162 wrote:
> Am 07.10.22 um 16:56 schrieb Grant Taylor:
> > On 10/7/22 8:25 AM, n952162 wrote:
> >> Can anybody tell me how I can look at the official change history
> >> of linux commands?
> >
> > Some man pages have history of commands in them.
> >
> >
Am 07.10.22 um 16:56 schrieb Grant Taylor:
On 10/7/22 8:25 AM, n952162 wrote:
Can anybody tell me how I can look at the official change history of
linux commands?
Some man pages have history of commands in them.
Admittedly, it seems as if man pages on Solaris and *BSD (I have
access to
On 10/7/22 8:25 AM, n952162 wrote:
Can anybody tell me how I can look at the official change history of
linux commands?
Some man pages have history of commands in them.
Admittedly, it seems as if man pages on Solaris and *BSD (I have access
to FreeBSD) tend to be better than Linux man page
Can anybody tell me how I can look at the official change history of
linux commands?
For example, the test(1) command used to have a regular-expression
parser built in. No longer, and more surprising, there's no discussion
of its disappearance on the internet; that I can find, at any rate.
I'd
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