Re: Possibly Off Topic Rant

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Ray Parrish wrote: And as another note, even 'though I've used the -d switch to show only directories in the output I'm still getting filenames with it. Please see the Coreutils FAQ on 'ls -d'. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#ls-_002dd-does-not-list-directories_0021 I had to

Possibly Off Topic Rant

2009-03-01 Thread Ray Parrish
Hello, I'm a fairly new user in Linux, and I've been studying and attempting to use the commands available to me at the command line by reading the man and info pages. I'm running into lots of problems determining the proper syntax for many of the commands due to very sketchy documentation.

Re: Possibly Off Topic Rant

2009-03-01 Thread Chet Ramey
Ray Parrish wrote: Hello, I'm a fairly new user in Linux, and I've been studying and attempting to use the commands available to me at the command line by reading the man and info pages. I'm running into lots of problems determining the proper syntax for many of the commands due to very

Re: Possibly Off Topic Rant

2009-03-01 Thread Ray Parrish
Chet Ramey wrote: Ray Parrish wrote: Hello, I'm a fairly new user in Linux, and I've been studying and attempting to use the commands available to me at the command line by reading the man and info pages. I'm running into lots of problems determining the proper syntax for many of the

Re: Possibly Off Topic Rant

2009-03-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 02 March 2009 00:22:15 Ray Parrish wrote: but it would be nice if the man pages would at least mention things like this parameter has to be quoted to work or use a * on the end of the path to activate the --recursive option. It took me hours to find that out with the ls command, see