Hi,
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Russell L. Harris
rlhar...@broadcaster.org wrote:
I need a recommendation for a Linux-compatible USB-interface flash
card reader to handle SD, SDHC, and CompactFlash.
My Verbatim Universal works flawlessly with my 16 GB Sandisk Ultra II SDHC card.
Manon.
Hi,
Don't know why, but for some reason I had the feeling that this might happen
some day sooner or later. Unfortunately it's pretty much sooner than I expected.
So prior to this disaster, a few weeks ago I downloaded all files from the Lenny
repository accompanied by the according html pages.
I
Hi Erin,
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Erin Brinkley erinbrink...@ymail.com wrote:
I use the 'iceweasel' package for my main browser. But I was thinking about
how Firefox itself (at mozilla.com) is much newer. I read a blog comment that
someone started running the newest binary directly
On 3/24/07, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
On Win I have a great little program named RoboForm that
manages my passwords for IE and FireFox and also fills in
forms with my personal information when needed.
Does anyone know of a similar program for Linux? It will
be nearly like losing a good
popping up during boot time:
mount: mount point /store does not exist
There was no further error during boot time and kde was up and running.
Then I'd reset everything and could mount and access /xyz as before.
What did I do wrong and how do I change /xyz to /store?
Greetings, Manon Metten.
On 4/5/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote:
Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
I want to change the name and access point of a partition on my second
hd.
It's labeled /xyz now
On 4/5/07, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Manon Metten wrote:
On 4/5/07, *Douglas Allan Tutty* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote:
Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686
On 4/5/07, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:43 -0500, Manon Metten wrote:
The odd thing however is, when I type 'ls /' /xyz as well as /store
show up, although /xyz is not mounted of course. How do I get rid of
this /xyz statement (and where does it come from
On 4/5/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Manon,
This discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about the FHS. (see
man hier and the debian policy manual).
The FHS is a policy document about what directories can be where and
what they're used for.
Thanks Doug. I will do
Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Hi,
I want to be able to insert accented chars, like àáäèéëìíïòóöùúü by means of
the keyboard.
I've googled and spent several hours trying to figure out how, but with no
result.
The above accented chars I've entered with
On 4/11/07, steef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Manon Metten wrote:
Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Hi,
I want to be able to insert accented chars, like àáäèéëìíïòóöùúü by
means of the keyboard.
I've googled and spent several hours trying to figure
On 4/11/07, Alok G. Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So basically, what I want is to press a dead key and than a vowel
to produce an accented char. How do I achieve this?
You can do that with a 'Compose' key. Here [1] is a guide for
GNOME/GTK+. You
On 4/11/07, Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 23:50 -0500, Manon Metten wrote:
I've tried various settings, but with no result.
Although Dutch is my native language, I like US English to stay the
default language on my system.
I prefer eg. US 'Cancel' over NL
On 4/11/07, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 13:16:57 -0500, Manon Metten wrote:
On 4/11/07, Alok G. Singh wrote:
On 11 Apr 2007, steefvanduin AT zonnet DOT nl wrote:
So basically, what I want is to press a dead key and than a vowel
to produce
Hi Johannes,
On 5/4/07, about unclutter you wrote:
The following works fine for KDE:
11:16:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more .kde/Autostart/unclutter
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/unclutter
$ chmod u+x .kde/Autostart/unclutter
I did the following:
$ cd ~/.kde/Autostart
$ nano unclutter (and entered
Hi Sjoerd,
On 5/7/07, you wrote:
The following works fine for KDE:
11:16:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more .kde/Autostart/unclutter
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/unclutter
It works fine, but how do I supply some args like: -idle 1 -keystroke?
'-idle 1' lets the cursor disappear after 1 second.
Hi guys,
Thank you all for answering my question about the meaning of #!/bin/bash.
I've learned so much from following threads on this list.
Greetings, Manon.
Hi,
As I never play games, I've removed most of them with aptitude. But some I
just can't remove: aptitude can't find them. I guess they are part of
gnome-games (games like: nibbles, robots, ataxx etc.) or something. However,
when I tried to remove gnome-games, aptitude warned me that gnome
Hi Ron,
On 5/25/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When you say gnome, do you mean the package named gnome?
If so, you should be all right. Unless aptitude does something stupid.
Sorry for my inaccurate description.
Here's aptitude's warning:
gnome-games will be removed.
The
Hi Mumia,
On 5/25/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I rather have gnome-desktop-environment removed completely, but I don't
know
what part or apps of kde will be broken then.
You probably can remove gnome-desktop-environment safely using aptitude.
Those individual Gnome programs
Hi,
On my other platform (AmigaOS) I make a lot of use of file notes.
Eg. if I download a file, I keep the original file name to store it, but the
url is stored in the file note. So when I later want to know where that file
came from, I just have to look at the file note.
Another thing is when
Sorry, I forgot to mention the following:
I'm using ext3 file system and
Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed May 9 22:23:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Manon.
Hi Kelly,
On 5/30/07, Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... As for the CD, it must be using Rock Ridge extensions with
Amiga extensions ...
The Linux iso9960 (CD filesystem) driver supports Rock Ridge but
it may not support Amiga extensions (I suspect it does not).
That's probably
Hi Deboo,
On 5/30/07, Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you detail a bit about this file notes thing a bit more? What all
does it let you do? Does it have to be in the FS only? Can it not be a
software package?
An AmigaDOS file note surely is a file system thing, it's certainly no
Hi Ron,
On 6/1/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Extended Attributes might be what you are looking for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_attribute#Linux
http://acl.bestbits.at/man/man.shtml
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/attr
Thanks for the tip. I'm gonna check this
Hi Deboo,
On 6/1/07, Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you for the very nice review of file notes. I wish this kinda
thing was there in one of the Linux FS. I do this kinda thing manually
when creating a file or a directory. I make a eradme.txt in every
directory where I put info about
Hi Daniel,
On 6/1/07, Daniel Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AmigaOS via the workbench also has a nice interface to view and edit
notes on files... If I was going to implement File notes I'd want them
integrated into konq or something ^^.
You're right. Coz I almost never use it via
FileNote update
After a lot of googling and reading, I finally managed to set some file
notes.
I found the following pages especially useful:
http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/13/1352241tid=113tid=70tid=89
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes
Hi Deboo,
On 6/2/07, Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm confused between attr, getfattr and setfattr. Which one to use.
What are the differences and advantages of one over others? For simple
use, which is better?
Quote from the CLI Magic: Use Extended Attributes for better file
Hi Deboo,
On 6/4/07, Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using getfattr and setfattr for now. Actually I made two scripts
to use both of these commands a bit more easily.
Could you mail me the script, please?
I found a problem tho. When a name value (user.comment for example) is
set for
Hi all,
Netscape navigator 9.01b for GNU/Linux is available for download here:
http://browser.netscape.com/
Greetings, Manon.
Hi Andrew,
On 6/6/07, Andrew J. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why are they still doing that in the age of Firefox?
The newspaper where I've read this, states that Netscape is build upon
Firefox, so maybe it has some extra features. Further it's closely
integrated with AOL's netscape.com
Hi,
On Etch, after having successfully removed OOo 2.0 and installed OOo 2.2.0,
after an aptitude update/upgrade aptitude complains:
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-draw
openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-math
Hi Bob,
On 6/8/07, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To prevent aptitude from removing some packages that were pulled in
through dependencies, you need to manually unmark them as auto
packages. This includes OpenOffice and Vim for desktop installs:
# aptitude unmarkauto
Hi Ron,
stable http://packages.debian.org/stable/editors/openoffice.org (editors):
OpenOffice.org Office suite version 2.0
On 6/8/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why are you using the upstream binaries instead of the Debian OOo
2.2.x packages?
I'm running Etch and I could not
Hi Bob,
On 6/8/07, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then you are not aware of the Debian OOo 2.2.x packages available as a
backport for Etch?
http://www.backports.org/
No, I was not. I've seen this url passing by every now and then, but simply
did
not grasp it's importance. I've
Hi Bob,
On 6/8/07, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Manon Metten wrote:
Nevertheless I've learned now how to install an .rpm package. (As a
Debian newbie, I still have to learn a lo-o-o-o-ot)
Please clarify! Please tell me that you are not going to be install
.rpm packages on your
Hi Bob,
Thank you for your very detailed and convincing explanation. I'll remove the
.rpm OOo stuff and install the backports from now on.
Still two question remains in my mind. First: What good is Alien for?
The Debian Reference says:
6.4.12 Convert or install an alien binary package
Alien
Hi Raquel,
On 6/9/07, Raquel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, Acroread .deb is available through Christian Marillat at
http://www.debian-multimedia.org.
Gee, thanks! I didn't know that either.
Greetings, Manon.
Hi Doug,
On 6/9/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... I used mc (midnight commander)
to poke into the rpm just as if (maybe it is) a tarball and installed
everything under /usr/local. This was before /opt was in the hier.
Now that /opt is in the hier, I would suggest that you
Hi John,
On 6/9/07, John Verhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also this is a good place to look for unofficial packages:
http://www.apt-get.org/
Thanks, I'll add this to my bookmarks.
Greetings, Manon.
Hi Daniel,
On 6/9/07, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
aptitude will try to remove packages that it thinks you don't need any
more. Usually it gets this right, but sometimes it guesses wrong. When
it does, just cancel the removals and it will understand that you really
want that
Hi Daniel,
On 6/10/07, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alien is very useful if all you have is an .rpm. It can't solve all
possible problems, but it's generally better than using rpm directly
on a Debian system: the main thing that springs to mind for me is that
dpkg silently
Hi Douglas,
On 6/10/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow, you need a whole partition for /opt! What all packages have you
needed for which there isn't a deb?
It's only 5 Gb, but it's a little oversized now I know of backports etc.
I had Adobe Acrobat, Firefox, Netscape
Hi Bob,
Thank you very much for your detailed explanation. As I mentioned
before, I'v already removed the rpm OOo files and installed the 2.2.0
OOo backport. It runs fine.
I see your point of view that it's better to search for some alternatives
if I can't find a deb substitute for an rpm
Hi Ann,
On 6/13/07, ann kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
I just install new debian.
but it seems nothing iptable in the default installation
how can I install?
I have used Guarddog to config my iptables.
It's very easy to use and it will take only about 15 - 30
mins reading the manual and
Hi,
When I run aptitude update, I keep getting this error message:
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://ftp.nl.debian.org etch/main Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nl.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
Hi Matthias, Douglas,
On 6/14/07, Mathias Brodala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main
[…]
deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ etch
Hi Kushal, Douglas,
On 6/14/07, Kushal Kumaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, does this mean that /var/lib/lists is configured during installation
of
Debian?
aptitude update writes the files in that directory. They are the
package lists downloaded from the repository. These simply contain
Hi,
I want to add another user to my system, but adduser won't let me.
It complains with the error msg: adduser: Only one or two names allowed.
I wanted to add a user with the user name guest, but other names are
also rejected. My guess is these two users are root me (manon).
BTW: I'm not
Hi Florian,
On 6/19/07, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As fas as I know, the error message adduser: Only one or two names
allowed. means that you provided more than two non-option arguments to
adduser; it has nothing to do with the number of users on your system.
What is the exact
Hi,
This urgent request was posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]by Hagar de l'Est
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Is not exactly Debian, but I think also of great importance for all of us.
Please sign the petition here: http://www.noooxml.org/petition.
(Cookies have to be enabled for this site.)
Hi,
On my Debian GNU/Linux box I use ext3 file system. On my other platform
(AmigaOS) I use SmartFileSystem (SFS). Well, I don't know nothing about
file systems, but SFS has one feature I really miss in ext3: .recycled.
Every file I delete or every file I overwrite, ends up in .recycled. This
On 6/29/07, Mathias Brodala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now after saving for the fifth time, I realize that I had accidentally
deleted some
vital info. How can I retrieve that? I just open eg. .recycled/my_doc$AAB,
copy
the info that was not deleted at that time and paste it in my current doc.
Hi Douglas,
On 6/29/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:45:03PM +, Manon Metten wrote:
I've never used it but you can probably use a CVS repository for this
more conveniently.
I don't know nothing about CVS repositories. Can you explain a little
Hi Sam,
On 6/30/07, Sam Leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ext3cow does this but it is not in debian repos for some reason
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/02/0413253
Thanks for the link. I checked out ext3cow, but taking snapshots is
not exactly what I meant. SFS takes no
Hi Sam,
On 6/30/07, Sam Leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I swear I have heard of something like that for ext3. I though it was
ext3cow. Took me like 30 minutes to find it on google, lol. hmm
Oh my! Well, thanks again. Although ext3cow is not what I am looking for,
your effort is much
Hi Douglas,
On 6/30/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
See the apt descriptions for subversion and cvs. From the description
of cvs:
CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old
versions of files (usually source code), keep a log of who,
Hi William,
On 6/30/07, William Pursell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Keep in mind that CVS is extremely old, and entirely obsolete.
Subversion was a new implementation of the same idea, and
did in fact address many of CVS's shortcomings. However,
if you are going to look into using a VCS (Version
Hi Rodolfo,
On 7/4/07, Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A few days ago I by chance realized that the DVD-RW I had used for months to
do
may backup was probably damaged: apparently it was not, because I could
burn my
data onto it without problems; but when I tried to copy its content
Hi Brad,
On 7/7/07, Brad Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When backing up to CD, my preference is to make two copies. On disks
from two different (but high quality) companies. That way, I hope I
greatly reduce the risk of suffering problems from a bad batch of disks.
At least one of those
Hi Brad,
On 7/7/07, Brad Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Right. You could also consider using GSpace. That's what I do with
You are joking, right? GSpace depends *entirely* on the goodwill of
Google. GSpace isn't endorsed by Google, and can disappear without
warning, if Google make any
Hi Brad,
On 7/8/07, Brad Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even if GSpace is discontinued, I can download the uploaded data by
accessing my gmail account. So, for a secondary backup, apart from
backups on cd/dvd, it will do for me. And I cannot anticipate on
Google (dis)continuing gmail etc.
Hi,
Is there a bash command available that shows the contents of the given dir
recursively, telling me how many files are in there and the byte size
occupied?
On my old Amiga I have Sizer. It does something like this:
: Sizer FOX:1960
sizing quietly...
FOX:1960...
Total number of files
Hi Ron,
On 7/15/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is what I wrote to solve a similar problem:
http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/pydir
Wow, thanks Ron! Works great. Just what I needed.
Greetings, Manon.
Hi William,
On 7/15/07, William Pursell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For the total number of files:
$ find . -type f | wc -l
For the total number of directories:
$ find . -type d | wc -l
To get sizes, du is the obvious choice, but you
could do the ridiculous:
$ find . -type f -exec cat {} \; |
Hi Ron,
On 7/15/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The top of the file shows various command-line options that I've
found useful over the years. Mostly borrowed from the OpenVMS DIR
command.
Thanks again. I don't know nothing about python, so if you hadn't told me
about the options,
Hi Ivan,
On 7/16/07, Ivan Glushkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
plugged them into my Debian Asus M6726NW laptop. I was surprised to see
that on /proc/meminfo I have only:
MemTotal: 906692 kB
MemFree:451864 kB
Snip
Amazing. I have exactly the same problem although I'm using a
Hi Evgeni,
On 7/16/07, Evgeni Golov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:33:23 +0200 Manon Metten wrote:
Amazing. I have exactly the same problem although I'm using a i686
kernel:
Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed May 9 22:23:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Hi Evgeni,
On 7/16/07, Evgeni Golov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:33:23 +0200 Manon Metten wrote:
Amazing. I have exactly the same problem although I'm using a i686
kernel:
Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed May 9 22:23:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Hi Evgeny,
On 7/16/07, Evgeni Golov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
please don't CC me, I read debian-laptop ;)
Sorry, I hit the wrong button in GMail.
Manon.
Hi Ron,
On 7/16/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does this mean CONFIG_HIGNMEM4G was not set when the kernel was compiled?
Correct. There were no 486 machines with more than a GB of RAM, and
those CPUs probably don't have the features needed by HIGHMEM.
And how do I install the
Yes!!! I'm back again, with the new kernel installed and 2Gb of mem
available.
Thanks you all for replying so fast. Couldn't do it without your help.
M free
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem: 2011456 2196841791772 0 10536
Hi time lord,
On 7/17/07, time lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, I have debian etch installed since yesterday (16-July-07).
I have used both synaptic and apt-get to install Bart Martens installer
package off of DVD1,
this process then fetches the flash player from adobe and the install
Hi LostSon,
On 7/25/07, lostson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... I have read that once a debian release goes into stable like
etch has you do not see very many updates or new apps just security and
bug fixes mostly.
I know about enabling testing and such but I have done that once and it
broke my
Hi Hal,
On 7/26/07, Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a server running Sarge. I tried to find lame and got this:
Snip
Neither toolame or glame provide lame itself. It's LPGL, does that
create a conflict with Debian's social contract?
Do I have to go out of the repositories to
Hi Hal,
On 7/26/07, Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 26 July 2007, Manon Metten wrote:
I tried this, but used the line:
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main
aptitude could not get the Packages file from that source. I checked:
http://www.debian-multimedia.org
Hi,
I want to add the dir ~/scripts to my path, what command do I use for that?
M echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
But how do I add ~/scripts to that path?
Thanks, Manon.
Hi Mike,
On 8/7/07, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do something like this
$ export PATH=~/scripts:$PATH
If you put it into the appropriate startup script it will get done
every time.
I was looking for some kind of 'path' command but could not find anything
alike. I didn't know of
Hi Nyizsnyik,
On 8/7/07, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would rather you checked your ~/.bash_profile file.
What's the reason I shouldn't touch /etc/profile but use
~/.bash_profile instead?
Manon.
Hi Andrew,
On 8/7/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
$PATH is an environment variable like any other and gets assigned a
value in the same way as any other. export is used to make a variable
available to other processes that come after the one spawned by the
assignment
Hi,
I'm about to learn bash or python scripting.
- Which one is easiest to learn?
- Which one is more powerful?
- Can I execute /bin commands from within a python script
(something like mkdir or ls)?
Or should I learn bash scripting anyway?
Please, let me know your experiences.
Thanks in
Hi PK,
On 8/7/07, P Kapat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's the reason I shouldn't touch /etc/profile but use
~/.bash_profile instead?
For the simple reason that you wouldn't want (or prefer) to mess with
the system's defaults unless otherwise forced to. Moreover, think of a
machine where
Hi David,
On 8/7/07, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's the reason I shouldn't touch /etc/profile but use
~/.bash_profile instead?
They do the same thing, but for different scopes. /etc/profile affects
every account on the system. ~/.bash_profile only affects your own.
On a
Hi David,
On 8/7/07, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm about to learn bash or python scripting.
- Which one is easiest to learn?
That's debatable, I think. Bash's syntax is more idiosyncratic, but
there's less of it.
- Which one is more powerful?
Python.
Or should I
Hi PK,
On 8/7/07, P Kapat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ain't got no /usr/share/doc/bash/examples dir.
There's also no /usr/local/share/doc dir.
Where do I get these examples?
apt-get install bash-doc
In general, for any package, pkg, pkg-doc is a good source of help and
examples.
Waw,
Hi Mike,
On 8/7/07, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
$ export PATH=~/scripts:$PATH
SNIP
Well, I combined two commands into one.
$ x=y
sets an environment variable x to value y.
$ export x
makes x available to all subprocesses in the tree which get created
after the export.
$
Hi Mike,
On 8/7/07, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do believe he's got it... almost.
Errr... She :-)
If ENV_VAR is an environment variable, then the shell interprets
$ENV_VAR as a request to remove $ENV_VAR from the command, and replace
it with the value of ENV_VAR. So...
$
Hi Michael,
On 8/7/07, Michael Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a stop-gap, you might want to install regina-rexx . That'll at
least give you time to convert your scripts to something else.
Gee, this is great. It looks very familiar. I don't think it won't take
long before I can use it.
Hi Vincent,
On 8/7/07, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not zsh (more powerful than bash) or perl?
Could you explain in short why you prefer zsh over bash?
Thanks, Manon.
Hi Nelson,
On 8/8/07, Nelson Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nowadays I replaced Perl with Python, but I still use Perl from time
to time (to write one-liners mostly).
Why did you switch from Perl to Python?
Learn how to use 'find'. It's very useful.
Also regular expressions.
I will.
Hi Andrew,
On 8/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Recently I've begun picking up (mostly by osmosis and from reading
Florian's posts) a lot more awk, find, and regex. Those three combined
with xargs or find -exec can get a pile of work done really quickly.
Thanks for the
Hi Andrew,
On 8/8/07, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But how do I add ~/scripts to that path?
I saw nobody in the thread suggested this:
Instead of a ~/script dir I use a ~/bin dir and didn't need to change
anything because ~/.bash_profile already contains:
Thanks for the tip.
Hi,
This thread ain't over yet. Apart from using ~/bin (as Andrei Popescu
suggested) I noticed that adding 'export PATH=$HOME/scripts:$PATH'
to the end of ~/.bash_profile, the newly added dir is not available in
any new session I open. However, when I open a new bash window,
the new dir is
Hi Nelson,
On 8/8/07, Nelson Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why did you switch from Perl to Python?
I found the code I wrote easier to understand. But as I said before,
I still use Perl for some tasks.
OK. I forgot to mention Perl in my initial question. But if the code is
easier to
Hi Nyizsnyik,
On 8/8/07, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Adding $HOME to /etc/profile should not work the way you want it to.
These settings are global, consider them as executed by root, so in
this case $HOME will resolve as /root, not /home/manon as you may have
expected.
Hi Andy,
I remember om my old Amiga I had a similar problem.
It had something to do with the camera not complying to
usb standards. I first had to format the mem card on my
computer before I could access it. From then on I had
no more problems. Though this ain't exactly Linux
related, you might
Hi Wayne,
On 8/8/07, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any changes made to .bash_profile or .bashrc require a restart of that
file.
If you have at the end of the .bash_profile, the command
. .bashrc
Then after editing either one, you do
. .bash_profile ( which is the same as logging
Hi Andrew,
On 8/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
if you haven't yet, you would be well served to read man bash.
As I already said (Quote: I first have to work my way to 'man bash' ),
I surely will.
It is an excellent resource, and you'll learn bash scripting at the same
Hi Andrew,
On 8/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think you're missing the point. Write in whatever suits you and the
task at hand. If you're hacking on a project that has already started,
then learn the appropriate language. If you're starting from scratch,
then learn
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