Hi Erin,
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Erin Brinkley 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 from Firefox instead
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,
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Russell L. Harris
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.
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> I want to execute some script file in usb storage media with fat32 format,
> but I can not set execute permission to them with "chown +x". What shall I
> do?
I don't think "chown +x" is possible on an alien FS.
On my usb stick with FAT32, all files look like they're executables.
You might simpl
Hi Pol,
> Using cups on debian testing, the page printed seems in draft mode (the
> resolution is 1200x1200).
> How check (and disable) draft mode in cups?
Use your webbrowser to access the cups interface:
0: http://localhost:631/
1. Manage Printers
2. Set Printer Options
3. Printout Mode
M
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Merciadri Luca
wrote:
> I have many media files in some specific directory (folder, call it as
> you want). Loading the folder takes ~30 sec., even if I am using quite
> fast HDDs, etc. They're all on the same partition. I have disabled
> previewing, or thumbnail
Hi Paul,
Sorry, made an error. You should use or course:
> # aptitude install -t lenny-backports wicd
Greetings, Manon.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Manon Metten wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> I'm running Lenny and found wicd on Debian Backports at:
> http://packages.debian
Hi Paul,
I'm running Lenny and found wicd on Debian Backports at:
http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/wicd
You should add the next line to your /etc/apt/sources.list (ie: if
you're too using Lenny)
deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free
run 'aptitude upd
Hi All,
Since I installed Lenny from scratch a while ago, I have problems accessing
my external usb hd. It is plugged in to a usb port permanently, but I only turn
on the power if I need to access it (I use it for backup).
As I turn on the power, it reports as owned by root, but when still on Etc
Hi All,
Since I installed Lenny from scratch a while ago, I have problems accessing my
external usb hd. It is plugged in to a usb port permanently, but I
only turn on the
power if I need to access it (I use it for backup).
As I turn on the power, it reports as owned by root, but when still on Etc
Hi,
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Long Wind wrote:
> I have a cell phone
> it can't play some mp3
> maybe it supports only 128K
> So I want to convert hight quality mp3 to 128K
> Which package in etch?
I would recommend lame; it's in the multimedia repository
(http://www.debian-multimedia.org
Hi Rick,
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> I forgot about seq. This is even better (the -w left pads with zero for
> equal width):
>
> for x in $(seq -w 1 100); do cp file.jpg file${c}.jpg; done
Waw! Great one-liner.
BTW: Guess you meant file${x}.jpg;
Greetings, Manon.
Hi Rodolfo
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Rodolfo Medina
wrote:
> I need the right syntax to copy file.jpg 100 times with one command so to get
> 100 files named file1.jpg, file2.jpg, ..., file100.jpg.
#!/bin/bash
for x in `seq 1 100`; do
if [[ x -lt 10 ]]; then cp file.jpg file-00$x.
Hi Kelly, Lee,
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:49:57PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
>
> Personally, I trust xscreensaver a lot more than the KDE or Gnome
> screensavers.
>
> http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#kde
> http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html
Hmm. Interesting stuff to read. Ne
Hi Rob,
>> Whenever I move my mouse, the screen wakes up from either blanking
>> or dpms mode. I would like to turn that off and have the screen wake up
>> only when I hit the keyboard.
> searching a bit, it seems like if you're using xscreensaver,
> increasing 'pointerHysteresis' a whole bunch m
Hi,
Whenever I move my mouse, the screen wakes up from either blanking
or dpms mode. I would like to turn that off and have the screen wake up
only when I hit the keyboard.
Can anyone please tell me if this is possible at all, and how to achive it.
Thanks in advance, Manon.
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Hi David,
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:06 AM, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Got my new WDC800 disk up and running, LVM (fantastic tool!). 2.6.26-rt now
> boots without problems.
>
> I have noted that during high disk access rates, the temperature of the WDC
> soars (from a 33c idle to up
Hi Serena,
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Besides, mencoder can encode .flv. See its usage page:
>
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-selecting-codec.html
>
> At the end of the web page above, it has an example how to convert a avi file
Hi Serena,
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have etch and installed mplayer and mencoder from debian-multimedia. I can
> play .flv file and real media file.
> I have download a video clip from a video site like youtube. The clip has
> several .flv fi
Hi Bela,
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:01 AM, abdelkader belahcene
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a program written for XP, I want to run it on my linux debian,
> I tried wine, I didn't do want, is ther another emulator or another
> procedure;
Check out this link: http://win4lin.net/content/
Th
Hi Raju,
On 6/7/08, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Manon Metten wrote:
>
> > The only problem I have lately is Firefox 2.0.0.14 crashing regularly.
> > Everything else is running fine.
>
> No. The opcode errors do not correspond to the firef
Hi Raju,
On 6/13/08, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So I removed '/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1' and the errors where gone.
>
> Which errors? Did it get rid of the opcode errors or did it get rid of "bad
> font path element" errors?
To my surprise I'm back to where I've star
Hi Ron,
On 6/12/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Mine is an ASUS DRW-1814BLT, and the disks (both DVD-R SL and DVD+R
> DL) are Memorex.
I'm on Debian Etch; dvd burner is Sony optiarc.
I'm using Maxell SL DVD+R for backup purposes only without any problems.
I remember though I had
Hi Aaron,
What's this for kind of 'aptitude why' command you used?
> frenesi: ~ % aptitude why poppler-utils
> i cupsys Depends poppler-utils | xpdf-utils
When I tried 'aptitude why poppler-utils', aptitude complained
'Unknown command "why"'.
I' running Etch (aptitude 0.4.4-4). Could this
Hi Michelle,
On 6/8/08, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Manon,
>
> Am 2008-06-07 02:16:31, schrieb Manon Metten:
>
> > On 6/6/08, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > xset: bad font path element (#71), possible causes a
Hi Raju
On 6/7/08, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Manon Metten wrote:
>
> >
> > The only problem I have lately is Firefox 2.0.0.14 crashing regularly.
> > Everything else is running fine.
>
>
> No. The opcode errors do not correspo
Hi Michelle,
On 6/6/08, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > xset: bad font path element (#71), possible causes are:
> > Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> > Directory missing fonts.dir
> > Incorrect font server address or syntax
>
>
> Can you show us t
Hi Raju,
> Are you running KDE by any chance? I have the same errors in
> my .xsesssion-errors as well. I have a feeling that it is due to some badly
> written KDE app.
Yes, I'm running KDE (using etch: Linux debian 2.6.18-6-686 #1).
I forgot to mention.
The only problem I have lately is Fir
rrect these errors?
Greetings and thanks in advance,
Manon Metten
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Hi Florian,
Thanks for explaining.
> > What is this Multi_Key? What's it used for?
>
>
> It is used to "compose" special characters by pressing two or more keys
> in succession.
OK. Then I prefer to use the Menu-key, coz that's the way I set up Xkb
options. To me it's much easier than pressin
ke I requested, that
I still should eliminate this pc104/105 inconsistency?
Finally, in Control Center/Xkb options I read "Third level
choosers/Press Right Alt key to choose third level, Shift+ Right Alt
key is Multi_Key."
What is this Multi_Key? What's it used for?
Thank y
Hi Nigel
> I suggest unchecking all boxes on the "Enable xkb options" page, click on
> "apply", then on "default", then logout, and login to KDE.
>
> Having logged back in, check "Enable xkb options" box, and scroll down to the
> "Third level choosers" section, then check the "Press Right Alt
Hi Nigel,
Well I tried adding the € to the 5 key on my Etch install, which only has
> the
> original US keyboard layout. The only box I checked in xkb options was the
> "Add the EuroSign to the 5 key" one, and ALT-GR plus 5 now gives me the €
> char. The command shows: setxkbmap -option eurosign
Hi Florian,
On 4/13/08, Florian Kulzer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 21:43:55 +0200, Manon Metten wrote:
> > On 4/12/08, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > > On Saturday 12 April 2008 05:17, Manon Metten wrote:
> > > > H
Hi Nigel
On 4/12/08, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 12 April 2008 05:17, Manon Metten wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > In "KDE/Control Center/Keyboard layout/Xkb options", I set
> > "Adding the EuroSign to certain keys" to
Hi All,
In "KDE/Control Center/Keyboard layout/Xkb options", I set
"Adding the EuroSign to certain keys" to "Add the EuroSign to the 5 key",
coz that's where
it is located on my keyboard.
At the bottom of the Control Center I read: "setxkbmap -option
eurosign:5,compose:menu".
(I have set Compose
On 4/1/08, Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> another problems for OO. The UI Font is so ugly that I want to change it.
> I've tried every solutions I can find in google, but nothing works!
>
> - Check/Uncheck using system font
> - Apply replacement table for the font "Andale Sa
Hi Andrius,
On 3/6/08, Andrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi lads,
>
> technical question: is it possible to extract text from PDF? From PDF to
> txt.
>
Using "Adobe Reader 8.1.2" I could simply select text with my lmb,
and than paste the text to wherever I want.
Or I could do a ctrl-a and
Hi,
On 2/2/08, Sam Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I set mine for 60 days or 100 mounts.
>
Before I change something, I would like to know the current
setings. How do I find those?
Greetings, Manon.
Hi Jim,
On 1/29/08, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does the opera browser has caches when I view the web pages?
Yes, Opera caches web pages. You'll find them here:
Tools/Preferences/Advanced/History. You can also empty the
cache there.
Have you tried to reload a page/frame.
... sometime I cou
On 1/12/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 07:53:28PM +0100, Manon Metten wrote:
> > On 1/11/08, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > If you spin around in a circle fast enough while
On 1/11/08, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> If you spin around in a circle fast enough while holding the flash
> card, all the bits slide to the outside edge where they're harder to
> reach. ;)
>
Yeah, I had the same problem with my harddisk. It spins by nature.
But to compensate I
Hi Ron,
On 11/28/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can guarantee you with metaphysically complete certitude that OP
> is *not* using a machine with an 80386 chip in it.
Sure :-)
I Googled a bit and found that the 80386 was first released in 1986.
So that's pretty ancient. I had no id
Hi Ann Kok,
On 11/27/07, ann kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yes. I have 2G physical memory
> but the kernel is showing 1G
>
> the kernel verion is 2.4.27-2-386
>
Once I had the same problem with kernel: 2.6.18-4-486
After I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.18-5-686 I could use 2Gb.
I was told tha
On 11/4/07, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This means, Iceweasel *is* Firefox just with another name.
> >
>
> Yes, usually. But it also wreaks havoc with certain sites because the
> user agent says "ice weasel" which most sites don't recognize. If you
> stay with ice weasel, I reco
Hi Sean,
You might consider using Lha. It does the same as tar and bzip2 together
(although you can disable compression).
It has a simple syntax. You can also view the contents of the archive and
even extract one single file from it.
Example (suppose I have a 'work' dir with a.o. the file 'abc' i
Hi,
I was wondering if powering on causes the most wear and tear to HD's,
than wouldn't it be wise to set timeout in /boot/grub/menu.lst to eg.
600 (10 min.) so that the HD's have some time for warming up before
they are accessed heavily on boot-up.
Manon.
Hi Giorgos,
On 8/29/07, Giorgos Pallas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Which brings me to my last question: I don't have a ~/.icedove nor a
> ~/.thunderbird directory... Where does it store my profile?
~/.mozilla-thunderbird.
Manon.
Hi,
On 8/28/07, Loeghmon T. Nejad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What do you recommend as a good, practical WYSIWYG editor for creating
> simple web pages, with mostly text, some graphics and pdf, for debian Lenny
> please? Thanks.
You could use Quanta +. Pressing 2 will load the page you just edi
Hi Mumia,
On 8/19/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* However, I never do anything at the command line that hasn't been
> verified as safe. I always use the curses interface to find out what is
> going to happen before I enter a command at the command line.
Well, that's a valuable advis
Hi Douglas,
On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you mix with apt-get ...
>
> ... This leads to the cruft buildup that
> aptitude is suposed to help you prevent.
I remember a thread some time ago that just pointed out not to mix apt-get
with aptitude.
The other problem i
Hi Anthony,
On 8/20/07, Anthony M Simonelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How about Zenity? I've used it before to provide a GUI interface to
> some of my simple bash scripts.
Thanks for the tip. Gonna check this out too.
Greetings, Manon.
Hi Douglas,
On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
However, I don't understand the concept of compeletly controlling and
> editor from a script.
Everything I can do by accessing a menu item or hitting some keys,
I can do from within a script, and even more.
I still haven't fo
Hi Bob,
On 8/20/07, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks. I copied this to my 'Bash-howto'.
>
> I would hate to see you record this in your howto with "==" without
> knowing that "==" is a bash specific feature. :-)
Well, actually it ain't that hard. I know from C that = assigns a
Hi Ron,
On 8/20/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the links. You surely know how to find something.
>> I find this much more comfortable than eg. typing:
> >>> rx mp3conv.rexx 256kbps ~/mp3/work
> >>> Even better: I run this script from within my dir util (DirOpus ==
> >>>
Hi David,
On 8/19/07, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It certainly has its warts. In particular, Bash's "test" (aka "[")
> operator has pitfalls. Testing for an empty variable, for example,
> is awkward. If you do:
>
> if [ $foo == "" ]
>
> Bash will complain about missing arguments.
Hi Ron,
On 8/19/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Python + Tcl/Tk should be easier than Python + Gtk.
Thanks.
Even simpler would be bash + dialog or it's GUI companion gtkdialog.
Could you mail me some examples you wrote, please?
> I find this much more comfortable than eg. typi
Hi Douglas,
On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Note that many of the horror stories about aptitude involved
> people using it as a CLI replacement for apt-get instead of using its
> curses interface.
Are you saying I should NOT use aptitude as a replacement for
apt-get, li
Hi Douglas,
On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> almost wrote:
Perhaps the OP can restate her needs and we can help her make a reasoned
> choice without it becoming a religious issue.
>
OK. I have a hard time to remember all those command line options. So
whenever
I have to accompli
Hi Steve,
Thanks for sharing your valuable experience. I've decided to first become
more familiar with Bash and then I'll give Python a try. If it don't like
it, I
can always try something else. But ATM I think Python will be the best
option. I've seen some code on the net that looks pretty clean
Hi Gilles,
On 8/17/07, Gilles Mocellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=> You just have to use the Etch 2.6.18-686 kernel to use more tha 1Gb !
> [...]
>
> No need of 2.6.21, Lenny
> If your system works with 2.6.21-2-686, it will with 2.6.18-5-686.
Thanks, Manon.
Hi,
Because of the "Debian Security Advisory DSA 1356-1" yesterday,
I did an aptitude update/upgrade. All went well except for the
following message:
> The following packages have been kept back:
> linux-image-2.6-486
This is my situation:
1. March this year I installed Etch with an 2.6.18-48
Hi,
I just read in the papers that there's a severe vulnerability discovered in
Opera 9.22, although the article did not say what. It is fixed in 9.23.
Manon.
Hi Andrei,
On 8/10/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just look at your .bash_profile:
>
> # ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells.
And in .bashrc I find:
# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
So this is my conclusion:
Whenever I open a new bash
Hi Wolodja,
As a side note on documentation. You might find packages like "dwww" or
> "dhelp" useful. They provide a single entry point to access all
> installed documentation.
Thanks! It's a very useful tip.
Manon.
Hi Wayne,
I have never seen this way of defining a path [ PATH=~/XX:"${PATH}" ]
These lines come from .bash_profile:
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
fi
I learned PATH="a path:a new path" everything inclosed in quotes
Hi Andrei,
It works as it should on my system:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep Hello .bash*
> .bash_profile:echo "Hello from bash_profile"
> .bashrc:echo "Hello from bashrc"
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bash
> Hello from bashrc
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ exit
> exit
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bash --login
> Hello
Hi Orestes,
On 8/10/07, Orestes leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe the correct way to do this is to set the path in ~/.bashrc.
> > Set it like so:
> >
> > PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:$HOME/scripts
>
> This works but, the ~/scripts dir appear for every user?
>
> because i
Hi Mumia,
On 8/10/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to add the dir ~/scripts to my path, what command do I use for
> that?
> >
> > M> echo $PATH
> > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
> >
> > But how do I add ~/scripts to that path?
> >
> > Thanks, Manon.
> >
>
> I believe th
Hi Wayne,
On 8/10/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Are you doing all of this in KDE? If so I have no clue. I would
> suggest you go to a console VT and enter the path statements I showed.
> Then, if it doesn't work there, there is a real problem ...
Yes, I was doing this in KDE. I s
Hi Mike,
On 8/10/07, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Errr... She :-)
>
> Sorry 'bout that! Hard to see what you look like!
Never heard of a guy named Manon, only of 'A Boy Named Sue'.
But then again: What's in a name? :-)
Abject apologies and all that.
> Also, that's a better quote
Hi Wayne,
On 8/9/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK I think I found the problem.
>
> Your path statement is incorrect.
> PATH=~/XX:"${PATH}"
>
> Try this
>
> SCRIPTS="/where/your/scripts/are"
> PATH="$PATH:$SCRIPTS"
That ain't the solution either. I got exactly the same output.
So I e
Hi Steve,
Thanks for explaining. I'll examine some scripts I'll find on the web,
to get an idea of how it looks.
Manon.
Hi Steve,
On 8/9/07, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> python ... is sensitive to indentation;
>
> > Well, that's a major disadvantage to me too.
>
> Actually, it isn't. At no time have I ever had any problems with
> Python
> code which would not also be an issue in other code as wel
Hi Steve,
On 8/9/07, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Or should I learn bash scripting anyway?
>
> Learn enough to be able to parse it and convert it to your language of
> choice.
That's a valuable advice. It'll save me a lot of time and yet I'll be able
to achieve what I want.
import
Hi Vincent,
On 8/9/07, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
zsh is more powerful, e.g. recursive globbing, MULTIOS, more powerful
> parameter expansion, tied parameters...
> >
> In fact, zsh is better mainly for interactive use (better completion
> mechanisms, multiline editor).
I'll take
Hi Florian,
On 8/8/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html
> http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/start.html
> http://hetland.org/writing/instant-python.html
Thanks for the links. They are very useful. Although I did already
some re
Hi Wayne,
On 8/8/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Are you saying that you put the PATH in .bash_profile like
> PATH="./scripts:$PATH"
> export PATH
>
> And doing
> . . .bash_profile
>
> does not make it availible when it finishes? If that is so, please
> post the contents of your .bash_
Hi Wayne,
Pretty straightforward your PS1 example. That's one bridge too far
for me now, as I'm only for about one year on Debian.
I simply use PS1='M> ' for user and PS1='R> ' for root :-)
For me, the rest is redundant info, which only distracts me.
Isn't Debian (Linux) fun!
Yes, it is. That
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 lear
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 sam
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 lo
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 gi
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 $HOME will resolve as /root, not /home/manon as you may have
> expected.
Hi Nelson,
On 8/8/07, Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why did you switch from Perl to Python?
>
> I found the code I wrote easier to understand. But as I said before,
> I still use Perl for some tasks.
OK. I forgot to mention Perl in my initial question. But if the code is
easier t
Hi,
This thread ain't over yet. Apart from using ~/bin (as Andrei Popescu
suggested) I noticed that adding 'export PATH=$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 availab
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 t
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 t
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 wil
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 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. T
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 $ENV_VAR from the command, and replace
> it with the value of ENV_VAR. So...
>
>
Hi Mike,
On 8/7/07, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>$ export PATH=~/scripts:$PATH
>
>
> 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 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
> exampl
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
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.
>
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
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 adva
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 pro
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.
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