On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 19:16 +1100, Laurence Jeloudev wrote: > setting up the environment command > > this starts off with the command cat > > i typed it in and everything was frozen or destroyed after that it > didnt respond at all
You are referring, I take it, to the following commands? cat > ~/.bash_profile << "EOF" exec env -i HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' /bin/bash EOF What this means is that we run cat, reading all input up until we find a line consisting of EOF, and write it to ~/.bash_profile. If the command is freezing, you've probably mistyped something, such that it hasn't recognised the EOF line, and is continuing to send everything you type to ~/.bash_profile. Simon.
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