Brace expansion

2009-04-04 Thread Ray Parrish
invocation', and it does not even explicitly spell out what the %d argument means, instead it just tells me "it's like the C printf, except for these differences". I have never used C, and have no idea where to look it up, so what good is that info page??? I'm trying to lea

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

Possibly Off Topic Rant

2009-03-01 Thread Ray Parrish
quirement for the use of specific syntax options I eventually discover are required to use a command. I consider this a bug in the documentation, and think it would be nice if the documentation writers would add a --verbose --verbose switch to their writing behaviors when producing man pages. Lat