Linux-Misc Digest #303, Volume #21 Thu, 5 Aug 99 22:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: What I think of linux. (Chris Butler)
Re: It MUST could be done (Johan Kullstam)
(no subject) (Phillip)
terminal strangeness - new RHL 6.0 install
Re: Failed Kernel Compile: System is too big ("kgb")
Re: root pw problem - URGENT (Dajan Posavac)
Re: tunneling (Dajan Posavac)
Re: Compiling Data Explorer (Per Kistler)
Re: Posted already for the third time (John McKown)
Compiling Data Explorer (Per Kistler)
Re: Changing the Hostname (moasi)
Re: Boot sector/SCSI driver viruses and CD AutoRun (was Re: Linux and Viruses - Not
the same old question) (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Extracting configuration from compiled kernel ("Lord Byron")
Re: Redirect Standard Out to Com 1. (John McKown)
LILO with FAT32? ("Jordan C. Hack")
Re: Glimpse (L J Bayuk)
Re: How to install from RedHat 6 CD (Leonard Evens)
Re: How to install from RedHat 6 CD (Leonard Evens)
Re: Redirect Standard Out to Com 1. (Collin W. Hitchcock)
Re: Need good Linux equiv to Win95/98/NT4 find text in file function (Don Feliciano)
Re: Text reader? (Benoit Goudreault-Emond)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Butler)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: 4 Aug 1999 11:31:26 +0100
[comp.os.linux.advocacy - Fri, 30 Jul 1999 02:09:23 -0400] * alann wrote *
> You're right, somewhat. I would be curious as to the average age of Linux
> users. I'm 34. First computer I ever had my hands on was a Commodore PET.
> That was a LONG time ago. Right now there are a gazillion Windows users.
I hate to say this, since I'm likely to get landed with a branding of
teenage skript-kiddie, or similar, but I'm 16. Started with Linux about 2
years ago.
No, I didn't start using linux because it was the latest "kewl thing". The
majority of the hype hadn't started at that point, I had a friend who was
using it and singing it's praises, and finally the curiosity overwhelmed
me..
> How many are over 40 and grew up in a generation that computers DIDN'T exist?
> How many users used a computer with Windows for their "virgin" computer
> experience?
Well, I started with an Amstrad PCW. Green-screen, and *two* floppy
drives. After that we got a BBC Model B, with a dual 5.25" floppy drive.
Then I moved onto an Amiga[0] for a while, then an Amstrad 1512[1]. Then
we got a Compaq 386/25 "portable"[2] machine. Finally, about 3 years
ago, I got a P60 machine with Win95 on it. The thing I liked best about
Win95 is that you can have multiple DOS sessions open at once, still do.
The P60's been upgraded to a Cyrix PR-166, and now dual-boots[3] Linux as
well..
There, that's just about my entire computing history in a nutshell.
[0] We all make mistakes, don't we? :)
[1] An 8086 PC. Ran at about 2Mhz IIRC, had a 20Mb HD and 640kb of RAM.
[2] Read: Size of a breeze-block and twice as heavy.
[3] Spends most of it's time in Linux now. My mum has her own account that
loads straight into GNOME, with the various games available on the
panel, so she's happy. My dad now has another machine to run Win95
stuff, so he's happy. I can use Linux over the network from the 386
in my bedroom, so I'm happy..
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Chris Butler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: It MUST could be done
Date: 05 Aug 1999 16:47:32 -0400
"..:: Michael Christensen ::.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi again....
>
> I'M coding in VB 6.0...........
does this have any relation to linux whatsoever? not that i am
against helping you, i just do not do windows and have no idea how to
help.
[vb stuff elided]
> There MUST be other coders who have done this......... please send your
> answer to my e-mail
you might try a windows oriented newsgroup.
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johan kullstam
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From: Phillip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: (no subject)
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 14:02:04 -0700
I am very new to Linux. i recently installed REdhat version 5.2 on my
machine. I have tried to change the color depth, but it always seems to
default to 8 bit color no matter what I seem to do. Ive opened the file
/usr/lib/X11/XF86Config and changed the depth from 8 to 16 in the
section Screen. However when I tried to start the Xwindows server, it
said that the default 8 bit was unavailable, and thus it could not
start. I am really not sure how to change this.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.config
Subject: terminal strangeness - new RHL 6.0 install
Date: 5 Aug 1999 21:30:36 GMT
remote logins to a new RHL 6.0 host connecting as term type xterm have
trouble with curses applications ( man, lynx, etc.,) inverting screen,
turning on underline, etc. If you set term type to something else ( e.g.,
vt100), you get a different set of screen oddities.
reset will usually fix things until the next curses application is run.
Any ideas gratefully appreciated.
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From: "kgb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Failed Kernel Compile: System is too big
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 16:17:26 -0500
> Try make bzImage instead.
Which I noticed on a website later this night. Thanks, however, the book I
had, older, 1996-1996: Orielly's Running Linux. Which stated make zImage as
opposed to make bzImage. but I'll give it a shot
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From: Dajan Posavac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: root pw problem - URGENT
Date: 5 Aug 1999 15:13:52 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc J. Guy Stalnaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hello all,
: On a Slackware 3.0 system, the root password suddenly no longer works.
: Only two individuals have root access to this system and neither of us
: have changed it. The box is running (that is, it's been up for some
: time--boots into X) and we have just discovered that now we cannot make
: a telnet connection to the system as root, nor can we login to a new
: terminal as root. Keep getting invalid password error. We don't whan
: to shutdown -r if we'll be unable to get back in.
: Have tried:
: 1. deleting encrypted root password entry in /etc/shadow and replacing
: with nothing. Result: cannot login.
: 2. deleting encrypted root password entry in /etc/shadow and replacing
: with *. Result: cannot login.
: 3. to give someone root user/group access, tried changing user/group
: entries in passwd for the two logins we have (his and mine). Result:
: cannot login.
: 4. used pwunconv to move shadow pw entries into /etc/passwd and tried 1.
: and 2. agian. Result: cannot login.
: Any help is thankfully appreciated.
: Guy S.
: --
: *-------------------------------------------------------------*
: J. Guy Stalnaker
: DoIT-Emerging Media Tech. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: 1210 W Dayton St Rm 4212 wk. 608.263.8035
: Madison WI 53706 fax 608.263.3846
: *-------------------------------------------------------------*
I had the same problem with my linux box when i installed some new librarys.
Your problem is in librarys or/and login program, check them!
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From: Dajan Posavac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tunneling
Date: 5 Aug 1999 15:01:47 GMT
Anders Linden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is it possible to tunnel ppp over ssh?
: Like if you had a "virtual" modem...
: That would be nice!!!
: /Anders
hmm, i think ppp will not work(don't ask me why), try to use ip tunneling
option in the kernel and then use ssh or some other encryption...
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From: Per Kistler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compiling Data Explorer
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 00:12:00 +0200
It worked. Was some over declaration in netlex.c
Per.
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Per Kistler [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: Posted already for the third time
Date: 6 Aug 1999 00:30:46 GMT
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:12:01 +0200, RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hey,
>
>If have two problems with RED HAT 6.0 that I didn't had with the versions
>5.0 and 5.2:
>
>1) after running updatedb is the computer crashing;
>2) after rebuiding and compiling the kernel in an completely exact way (like
>under 5.0 and 5.2) I get after rebooting under RED HAT 6.0 the following
>message:
> NO SETUP SIGNATURE FOUND......
>and I cannot start the new kernel.
>Under Red Hat 5.0 and 5.2 the new kernel started without any problem.
>Who can help me for resolving this two problems? Thank in advance.
1) I noticed that RedHat 6.0 replaced the updatedb/locate commands with
the single command slocate. I don't know why updatedb would crash Linux,
but you might want to change to the new way of doing things. slocate is
in the slocate-1.4-7.i386.rpm . Perhaps using this new facility would
be easier than trying to fix updatedb?
2) The message about "NO SETUP SIGNATURE FOUND" is in the file
/usr/src/linux/i386/boot/setup.S
It indicates that the program thinks that LILO did not load the kernel
correctly. Are you sure you remembered to do the /sbin/lilo after
moving the new kernel to /boot?
I hope this was of at least some help to you,
John
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From: Per Kistler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compiling Data Explorer
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 21:24:49 +0200
Hi All
Did someone successfully compile IBM Data Explorer
on Linux?
After some changes to the source I could
compile it, but have problems with linking.
I will not write here more, because maybe
nobody else cares about this software.
Regards, Per.
(I have SuSE6.1 Linux 2.2.5)
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Per Kistler [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (moasi)
Subject: Re: Changing the Hostname
Date: 5 Aug 1999 22:40:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 04 Aug 1999 13:39:13 -0400, Jeffery Browning wrote:
>You change it in /etc/sysconfig/network, then reboot.
reboot????????????
WRONG
check the config HOWTO!
*edit the /etc/sysconfig/network
*edit the /etc/HOSTNAME
*edit the /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost new_host_name.localdomain
*run hostname new_host_name.localdomain
*ctrl-D
and you are ready
--
Antwnios A. Zhsimos
Student of N.T.U.A
e-mail address :
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Subject: Re: Boot sector/SCSI driver viruses and CD AutoRun (was Re: Linux and Viruses
- Not the same old question)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 18:44:12 GMT
Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lucius Chiaraviglio),
> In a message on Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:05:17 GMT, wrote :
>LC> In addition, on other types of media, MacOS needs to load a
>LC> SCSI driver (not sure if this applies to IDE hard disks, but wouldn't
>LC> be surprised if it does) for the media and drive before it will mount
>LC> the media (Microsoft isn't the only company to come out with brain-
>LC> dead ideas). [. . .]
>
>My *guess* about MacOS needing to 'load drivers' from the media
>probably stems from a (mis-)feature that MacOS seems to share with
>MS-DOS -- the lack of a uniform I/O sub-system. Both MacOS and MS-DOS
>use an 'ac hoc' device driver system -- each *device* gets its own
>driver and there is no such thing as 'classes' of devices. Eg.
>instead of layering the SCSI system into a controller-level driver with
>high-level *general device class drivers*, each SCSI device gets its
>own driver.
This makes seems to be correct for MacOS, Windows 95/98, and
Windows NT, but DOS (including Windows 95/98 MS-DOS mode) isn't that
smart -- it just loads whatever drivers you tell it to in CONFIG.SYS
and AUTOEXEC.BAT (with the addition of DBLSPACE.BIN or DRVSPACE.BIN if
you have a compressed volume and with the addition of HIMEM.SYS,
SETVER.EXE, and IFSHLP.SYS if you are using Windows 95/98 MS-DOS
mode). You are free to have it use one driver for all removable media
other than floppies, but it won't necessarily work properly (sometimes
not at all) (had plenty of aggravation trying to set this up right).
I thought that MacOS was supposed to have a more uniform I/O
subsystem than DOS, but I guess that is just an illusion due to DOS
having so little I/O subsystem at all. :-P
> LinuxPPC is likely built just like LinuxX86: there are
>drivers for SCSI boards (eg an AIC-7xxx driver for Adaptec-ish 2940
>type boards), which are loaded by kerneld or at boot time (from a
>initrd) -- based on install options (hardware sensing or manual
>configuration) and then sd, st, sr, and sg drivers for hard disks
>(fixed and removable), tape drives, CD-ROM drives, and generic SCSI
>(catch-all for odds and ends, like CDRs CDRWs, scanners, etc., that use
>user-mode "drivers" via generic SCSI interface commands). Under Linux,
>Zip, Jaz, Syquest, and ANY other 'disks' (removable or not) are just
>disks and use the high-level sd driver over the driver for the
>interface board. [. . .]
So in other words, it shouldn't pay any attention to any
executable code on anything other than the boot volume unless
specifically told to.
>I think MacOS does issue an Enq command (MS-DOS probably also does), but
>probably does not use the results in the same way as Linux does. MacOS
>and MS-DOS probably use the vendor and model strings to find a driver
>based on vendor and model, which is really dumb, since this information
>is really not meant for this.
I don't think DOS is doing this unless a SCSI driver does it
then chooses some helper driver. On the other hand, I think MacOS and
Windows 95/98/NT do this just as you said, with Windows being stupid
enough that it often fails to find a driver automatically even if one
of the ones it already has happens to match the one it needs.
> Linux does not use the vendor and model
>info for anything but for documentaional purposes (except for some
>*older* devices with broken firmware which mis-report flag bits or just
>don't behave as they ought to). [. . .]
How is an extra non-standard but necessary feature (like
setting the software "write-protection" on Zip, Jaz, SparQ, and ORB
cartridges) handled (I mean internally, not the Zip/Jaz Drive HOW-TO
instructions for the user)?
By the way, I tried to find a LinuxPPC newsgroup, but it
doesn't look like my news server has any knowledge of one.
Lucius Chiaraviglio | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Note: I am trying a new news server -- it seems to work well, but it has a
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From: "Lord Byron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Extracting configuration from compiled kernel
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 17:16:09 -0500
Is it possible to remake a .config file from a compiled kernel? I
recompiled my kernel last night with SCSI emulation and the other options
necessary to use an IDE CD-R drive. It was late, so I forgot to save my old
.config file before I switched things around. I got the CD-R to work, but
now my hard drive isn't working. I tried switching off the SCSI stuff, but
I must've missed something, because I can't get my hard drive working again.
I still have the old kernel where my hard drive works, just not the .config
file that I used to compile it. Thanks in advance for any answers.
--
Chad Hjelle
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: Redirect Standard Out to Com 1.
Date: 6 Aug 1999 00:30:47 GMT
On Thu, 05 Aug 1999 16:47:55 +0100, Ben McCormack
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello
>
>I need some help!!
>
>Is it possible to re-direct the standard output to one of the com ports
>and then connect a vt100 or vt220 terminal. This would mean that i could
>run our single board computers without a graphics card and save some
>money on the cost of graphics cards.
>
>Any help would be great
>
>Ben McCormack
>Nortel Networks
You can use the VT100 or whatever without all that mess. There is a program
that comes with Linux called "getty". Try reading the "Linux serial HOW-TO"
It details what you need to do much better than I can! The basic thing
is to put a line in /etc/inittab which looks something like:
S1:456:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS<number> DT<speed> VT100
Again, I think if you read that HOW-TO, you'll be set!
John
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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 21:07:12 -0400
From: "Jordan C. Hack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LILO with FAT32?
Is it possible to get the following configuration to work:
4 Gig drive, with one FAT32 partition containing Win95 and a
1 Gig drive containing a 100 MB FAT16 partition, and the usual Linux
partitions (i.e., swap, boot, etc.)
I've read the mini-Howto on LILO, and it doesn't say anything about
FAT32 being a problem.
I have the partition on /dev/hda1 (the 4 gig drive) set as the active
partition.
I then configured LILO and installed it on the MBR of /dev/hda1.
Upon reboot, I got the expected "Linux Win95" prompt. Selecting
"Linux" worked fine. Selecting "Win95" did not work. It responded,
"Loading Win95...", and then returned to the "Linux Win95" prompt.
The same thing happened when I initially installed LILO to the MBR of a
floppy.
One other peculiarity is that after the LILO installation, /dev/hda1
couldn't be mounted. The failure message said, "Invalid superblock on
/dev/hda1".
And annoyingly enough, when I used a Win95 boot disk and ran "fdisk
/mbr" to restore the old MBR, it didn't solve the problem. I had to
resort to issuing the following command in Linux to restore the MBR and
be able to load Win95 again: "dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda1 bs=446
count=1".
It seems that I have a fairly common hardware setup. Why is LILO being
so difficult?!
Any insights are greatly appreciated.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L J Bayuk)
Subject: Re: Glimpse
Date: 6 Aug 1999 00:37:10 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I need some help with glimpse.
>
>I want to index our local newsgroups. The newsgroups entries have a
>large header with informations, which should not be indexed. Now, there
>is a file called .glimpse_filters where you can tell glimpseindex not to
>index those lines of a file written in .glimpse_filters.
>
>I was searching the web for example configurations of .glimpse_filters
>and could not find anything. Does anybody know, how to configure this?
To use this, you need to write a filter program (can be compiled C,
perl, Tcl, etc.) which reads stdin, and writes to stdout only the text you
want to index. Assume this program is at '/path/myfilter'. Then you
add a line to .glimpse_filters with: "* /path/myfilter <"
Then glimpseindex will pass all files through your filter when generating
the index.
You might also want to look at MHonArc
http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html which can convert news
messages to html and build index pages and cross-reference links; I use it
along with Glimpse to maintain a small searchable web archive of a
private news group.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to install from RedHat 6 CD
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 17:26:06 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I recently bought RedHat 6.0 GPL Update 3 from Linux System Labs
> (www.lsl.com) and I was excited because I had already installed Linux by
> downloading it but I made a mess of the whole thing. I don't know why,
> but after I stuck in the CD and rebooted I sort of expected the CD to
> boot an installation program. Anyway, it didn't and now I don't know
> what I'm supposed to do. I don't know any way of accesing the D drive
> in Linux and I don't think I can really do anything through Windows.
> The installation program that I had used before doesn't have the
> driver for my CDROM. Thanks for any help.
>
> Matt Bowyer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
Everything you need should be on the CD. Also, if you are
set to boot from the CD before the hard drive, it should boot
the installation program. But if it doesn't, there should
be an image of the installation floppy which you should be
able to copy using the DOS program rawrite.exe which should
also be on the CD. If for some odd reason you don't have
those things, you can get them from a RedHat or RedHat mirror
site.
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Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to install from RedHat 6 CD
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 17:29:20 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I recently bought RedHat 6.0 GPL Update 3 from Linux System Labs
> (www.lsl.com) and I was excited because I had already installed Linux by
> downloading it but I made a mess of the whole thing. I don't know why,
> but after I stuck in the CD and rebooted I sort of expected the CD to
> boot an installation program. Anyway, it didn't and now I don't know
> what I'm supposed to do. I don't know any way of accesing the D drive
> in Linux and I don't think I can really do anything through Windows.
> The installation program that I had used before doesn't have the
> driver for my CDROM. Thanks for any help.
>
> Matt Bowyer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
I'm a bit confused. I just looked at the web site you gave,
and they claim to send you the official release which contains
not only the CD but also an installation floppy and documentation.
If you have the installation floppy, just boot from it, and it
will guide you through what to do next.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Collin W. Hitchcock)
Subject: Re: Redirect Standard Out to Com 1.
Date: 05 Aug 1999 18:25:17 -0400
> Is it possible to re-direct the standard output to one of the com
> ports and then connect a vt100 or vt220 terminal. This would mean
> that i could run our single board computers without a graphics card
> and save some money on the cost of graphics cards.
Lots of useful information for you in the Text-Terminal howto:
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html
Collin
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From: Don Feliciano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need good Linux equiv to Win95/98/NT4 find text in file function
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 11:51:30 GMT
find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l 'string'
This will give you all the files containing 'string'
Do a man on grep to see other options (like suppressing error=20
messages, etc.)
You may want to put this in a script, and put the script in your $PATH=20
somewhere.
For example:
In a script called search:
#!/bin/ksh
if (( $# !=3D 2 )); then
printf "Usage: $0 <directory> <string>\n"
exit 1
fi
find $1 -type f -print | xargs grep -l $2
chmod 755 search
search /etc 'foo'
** Note: this syntax will also work:=20
find $1 -type f -exec grep -l $2 {} \;
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> snip <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> What I need is a clean way to do the equivalent of the Windows
> 95/98/NT4 Find function when used to find files containing a certain
> string. =20
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> snip <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Benoit Goudreault-Emond)
Subject: Re: Text reader?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 00:44:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What text reader can I use to read files containing lines like:
>
> 1H1.H.2H2.H. MHMaHaiHilHliHinHngHg LHLiHisHstHtsHs
>
> In most, the H is either highlighted or ^H.
> Thanks.
>
I believe ``less'' can take care of those. Those are generated by nroff,
and it's ``bold'' text (actually, overstrike).
If you can't see with with ``less'' (or with your manual pager), the text is
most likely corrupt.
--
Benoit Goudreault-Emond
CoFounder, KMS Group ; Student, B. Comp. Eng, Concordia University
``Being too close to a fireball can worry a man --- to death.''
-- Zeb Carter in "The Number of the Beast" by Robert A. Heinlein
Note: the "From:" address is not correct to protect myself against spam.
My actual e-mail address is: ``bgoudem AT axess DOT com''
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