Re: two questions

2004-06-24 Thread Hemal Pandya
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Michael Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a brain freeze tonight and apparently forgot some basic UNIX commands.. what is the command to remove the file --directory rm *directory* = nope rm *directory* = nope rm \-\-\directory = nope

Re: two questions

2004-06-24 Thread Hemal Pandya
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:51:09 -0400, epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:29:35 -0700 Hemal Pandya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Michael Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a brain freeze tonight and apparently forgot

Re: two questions

2004-06-25 Thread Hemal Pandya
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 01:24:50 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Michael Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] what is the command to remove the file --directory [snip] actually, *i* suggested using -r.

Re: two questions

2004-06-25 Thread Hemal Pandya
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 01:22:05 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [] as requested...(standard shell and standard user) ~ mkdir test Don't forget the leading hyphen. Try ~ mkdir -test which will, of course, give you an error. then try ~ mkdir ./-test and proceed as

Re: Configure ssh to behave like rsh. How?

2004-06-25 Thread Hemal Pandya
I was interested in this for a slightly different reason --- I would like to allow some users to ssh into my machine so they can port forward but not allow them to actually login to the machine. I found http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=200206210808.g5L88SJ15420_splat.grant.org%40ns.sol.net to

Re: command-line calculator?

2004-06-25 Thread Hemal Pandya
man expr man bc On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:41:02 -0700, CD Baby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What simple built-in command-line tools are available if I want to just do some simple math on the command line? If I'm there in a shell, and need to know what 17 times 36 equals?