Hello Bogi, thank you for this informative email. I am saving it to my clug_for_me folder and am also printing it out.
regards, Michael Walters ====================================================================================== Bogi wrote: > > 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
