Hi You as user user can not write to /bin directory, hence the cd ~ command to send you back to your home directory before you make the listing in your home directory. Users can not su to root the less they are in the suduers list, which they are not by default. You have to login as root ... ** you do not need to create a file in order to view a directory listing... use ls -la | less
that will give you a scrillable listing... to stop/exit less type q to exit :-) ctrl+c will not work :-) strings should be in /usr/bin/strings not in /bin to find something use find as before or use whereis filename ... if strings does not exist, install binutils from your distro disks :-) Cheers Szemir On Thursday 02 January 2003 07:44, you wrote: > Hello Dave Lee, > > I checked in usr/bin and found that although there were a great number > of commands there too, I could find no commands earlier in the alphabet > than sun-audio-file.sigh*. I used the shift page up keys to get to the > top of the usr/bin file. I tried to do a command "ls -la /usr/bin > > bindir2.txt and it responded "permission denied". I then did an su and > logged in as root and got another error message I can not clearly > remember, but it was something like executive commands not in this shell > or something like that. I will go into root and do it again to get the > exact reading of the error message. > > Regards, > > Michael Walters > > =========================================================================== >============= > > Dave Lee wrote: > > Michael Walters wrote: > > > It looks like you are right, as my brother installed mandrake linux as > > > mainly a desktop and internet platform, and he knew that I did not want > > > to go deep into development. > > > > > > I did a command ls -ls /bin and got my executable command list in > > > alphabetical order in green and strings* should have been between sort* > > > and stty* and it was not there. > > > > I think it's more likely to be in /usr/bin so check there too. > > > > also, in your orginal msg you wrote > > > > "bash : Strings : command not found.", > > > > the "strings" command should be all lowercase, no capitals. > > > > Dave
