On 08/11/01 10:18 -0800, Tathagata Banerjee wrote:
> i was trying to search for the string "s`ave text
> image" in all man pages, so 
> i did 
> $ man -K "save text image"
Works on my system.

> and also
> 
> $ man -K "save\ text\ image"
> 
> in both cases, bash returned
> 
> "sh: unsafe: command not found."
No such problem here. distro, version of bash (or are you using /bin/sh
for a shell?)

> which kept scrolling through the screen until i ended
> it with ctrl-c.
> 
> however, "man -K" works nicely with single-word
> arguments.
> 
> is this a bug or a feature?  :-)


> how can i find the specified string in all man pages?
Try whatis or apropos.

> and will someone enlighten me about the function of
> "chmod 1---  " ?
chmod 1--- == chmod +t = set the temp bit. This lets every user write to
the directory, but they can delete or modify only their own files. It is
required for filesystems like /tmp, where all users have to be able to
write to the directory, but they should not be able to modify other
users files.

> chmod 4--- sets the user id.
Always run program as owner, regardless of who invokes the program.
Example: passwd

> chmod 2--- sets the group id.
Run with the privileges of the group program. For a directory, this
implies that all files created in that directory will automatically get
that group as owner.

info chmod/man chmod for more details.

> "man chmod" says "chmod 1---" sets "save text image".

> what is "save text image" ? how does it work?
The save text image feature is wrt systems like Solaris, where /tmp is
also the swap section. In Linux, this is usually a separate partition,
or a separate file by itself.

Hope this helps

Devdas Bhagat

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