On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Steve Fuller wrote:
>
> On Jun 23, 2004, at 1:08 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>
> > On 23/06/04 13:35, "Frank P. Eigler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 23/06/04 13:09, "Frank P. Eigler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 23/06/04 12:39, "Frank P. Eigler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Bob wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The National Enquirer reports at 1:22 PM -0400 6/18/04, Timothy
> >>>>>>> Luoma
> >>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Not sure how to tell how much RAM is installed via
> >>>>>>>> Terminal.app, but
> >>>>>>>> there
> >>>>>>>> may be one.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> username$ system_profiler -detailLevel -2 |grep Memory
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> -> Memory: 1.5 GB
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> system: Command not found.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It's "system_profiler", not system...
> >>>>
> >>>> *I* know that - it's this bloody computer ;-)
> >>>>
> >>>> That's the response I got in Terminal when I tried this.
> >>>
> >>> Hmmm, that would be a first. The terminal is pretty straightforward.
> >>> If you
> >>> type the command, it will find it. If not, you get the above error.
> >>> Are you
> >>> sure you put the "_" (underline) between 'system' and 'profiler'? I
> >>> just did
> >>> a copy and paste into Terminal and it worked just fine...
> >>
> >> Interesting. The underscore doesn't appear - in either the email (I'm
> >> using PINE) or in Terminal (when I copy & pasted it).
> >>
> >> Now - I don't get the "Command not found", I just get a pause, then a
> >> return to the username prompt. No info.
> >>
> >> FYI, I'm using Terminal 1.3.2 (v82) under 10.2.8. Maybe that's the
> >> problem.
> >
> > If you don't get any error message, then it's because the command is
> > recognized. Now, why you don't get anything back, I don't know. Did
> > you just
> > do "system_profiler" to see or did you also included the 'grep'
> > command?
>
> Be sure that you are using the pipe character "SHIFT \" on my keyboard
> and not a lowercase L before the grep.

Yup, that was clear.
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