Gavin Clark wrote:
A ha, that's a character I've never used!
Now when I find a use for ^ I'll be using the whole keyboard.
;^)
Here ya go... ^ is used to replace character(s) in previous command and re-run.
In this example, I need to specify "nj" to "nk" because "^j^k" would result in
In a message dated 07-Oct-00 18:28:07 Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
$ cat junj
cat: junj: No such file or directory
$ ^nj^nk
cat junk
# contents of "junk" spilled here...
$
i think this would be better used for much longer commands, because saving
time for not
A ha, that's a character I've never used!
Now when I find a use for ^ I'll be using the whole keyboard.
;^)
well there you go! The UNIX equivilant of benching your own weight. (I
should get a t-shirt)
Gavin
on 10/5/00 5:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wrong quotes - use single backquotes
cool trick:
ls -l `which telnet`
but it didn't work for me.
I seem to run into this a lot. is there some speacial kind of single quote
character I don't know about?
Gavin
on 10/5/00 4:49 AM, Buchan Milne wrote:
Telnet and ftp may be accessible to users in the "ntools" group (check
with
Wrong quotes - use single backquotes (`) which in the webmail client I am
using are not obvious (the one on the key next to the "1" key in other
words. These tell the shell to execute the string within and replace the
string with the output of that command.
BillK
cool trick:
ls -l `which
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