Re: Books or Debian wrong? and other stuff
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 01:07:44PM -0400, Thomas J. Malloy wrote: When I, an linux and unix novice, find that commands I am entering are not yielding the results I expect how do I know if this failure is caused by a program bug, an error in the book or man page, my error or something else? For example on page 104 of Learning the Bash Shell O'reilly there is the following command vi $(grep -l 'command substitution' ch*) According to the text should load into the vi editor a file that is a list of the files in the PWD that begin with ch which contain the string command substition. The man page for grep would seem to confirm this However when I typed vi $(grep -l 'linux' *.txt) it loaded all the documents into vi not a list of documents. Is the book wrong? The book is wrong. Debian's behavior is correct. You'd have to save the list of files _to_ a file before vi would be able to read it as a list: grep -l linux *.txt tmpfile vi tmpfile Instead, what you're doing is feeding the output of the grep command to the command line. Try this for clarification: echo $(grep -l linux *.txt) Or this: echo `grep -l linux *.txt` And as long as I am here, I have noticed that the escape charactor in kermit does not work ^\. Neither does there seem to be anyway to exit dosemu other than killing the process. Kermit is full of bugs, and hamm does not have a current version. You can exit dosemu by running the exitemu program. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Books or Debian wrong? and other stuff
And as long as I am here, I have noticed that the escape charactor in kermit does not work ^\. Neither does there seem to be anyway to exit dosemu other than killing the process. Kermit is full of bugs, and hamm does not have a current version. Kermit is easy to download, compile and install, and works well. Ctrl-\ is the escape character, but you have to follow it with another character to cause anything to happen. For example, Ctrl-\ C will get you back to the kermit prompt, and Ctrl-\ ? will give you a list of other escaped commands. --Pete, who has downloaded, compiled and installed A LOT of things by hand, thanks to using Debian's prehistoric stable 1.3. I've got so much stuff in /usr/local now, my computer tipped over... Debian? That's like Slackware, only they never come out with a new CD. ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Books or Debian wrong? and other stuff
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 02:05:21PM -0500, Pete Harlan wrote: Kermit is full of bugs, and hamm does not have a current version. Kermit is easy to download, compile and install, and works well. Ctrl-\ is the escape character, but you have to follow it with another character to cause anything to happen. For example, Ctrl-\ C will get you back to the kermit prompt, and Ctrl-\ ? will give you a list of other escaped commands. I think some of the issues I've had with kermit are libc6-related, because libc5 versions always worked well for me. Among other problems, I've found it impossible to exit from kermit on occasion. I have to put it in the background and kill it. :) Thanks Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
