Stealth wrote: > On Monday 01 December 2008 04:12:25 pm Chris Staub wrote: >> Just practice - that's been a frequent issue mentioned in the IRC >> channel. Apparently a number of users assume the ">" in that >> command in the book is just the secondary bash prompt, not part >> of the command. I suppose the ">" could be moved to the end of >> the 1st line or something to remove any confusion...personally I >> think it's clear as it is, as the whole thing is in the "command" >> block... > > Yes! That > was the problem because it did look like the book. I was > not aware that you had to actually type > > > If there has been a lot of discussion about this then it does need > to be changed because it is not clear. > > The book needs to warn about this. > > THANK YOU! now I can move on. >
As I said, I don't think it's unclear. None of the other commands in the book (including the multi-line ones) have the bash prompt there, and as the book says in the "Typography" page, all the stuff in the command blocks is to be *typed* "exactly as seen". But I guess since so many people do have difficulty with this one particular command, it could be changed slightly... -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
