On 13.09.15 05:22, John Thornton wrote: > You don't type in the $ only xev and it works on Debian Wheezy.
Hell's bells ... old common knowledge has clearly become just old. One of the first things learnt about the unix command line in the old days, is that it has pretty much since the beginning been the most common default for an ordinary user's prompt to be '$', while the root prompt is '#'.¹ On all technical lists that I've encountered, it is the habit to include the command line prompt as shorthand confirmation that that is where the command is to be entered. Strike me pink, next we'll be calling directories "folders"! ¹ Of course, the prompt may be changed at will. These days, mine is: erik@ratatosk:~$ showing who I am currently, which host I'm on, and which directory I'm in. I.e.: $ su Password: root@ratatosk:/home/erik# Erik (Who's just grateful we still have mailing lists, and are not forced to use that Twitterface thing.) -- Q: How does a Unix Guru do Sex ? A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck;more;yes;umount;sleep ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
