Ron Johnson wrote:
Back to computers:
We're such a successful company, we can afford to buy Tier 1 kit,
and send all that money to MSFT. And because we do, we *must*
be getting good stuff.
(If that is, actually, an actual upper-management though process.)
"upper management thought pr
Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html
DC: quoted some 23 lines of RJ's message, including
signature block, and added one line of text:
Well, That explains why people use MS.
Please trim posts b
SENTHIL KUMAR wrote:
Hi,
i plan to run a program over some 20 files were i need to input
one files as REFERENCE and then the remaining as TEST. i have return
a script to take every file in the list to be taken a REF and the
remaining as TEST and it works well{all with all }. but i want t
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
Kevin Mark wrote:
In less, if you press 'v', it will open the file in VI, and then you can
view the file there.
Actually, it opens in an editor defined by the VISUAL or EDITOR
environment variables (in that order), defaulting to vi if neither is
set. In my syste
Mark Clarkson wrote:
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:10:37 -0800
Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If I do the "process substitution" using a stand alone programs, it
works as described:
$ wc <(echo this is a test)
1 4 15 /dev/fd/63
I couldn't find the correct place to
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/15/08 10:47, Andrius wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/15/08 10:07, Andrius wrote:
Returning to the question about Mutt.
Why to complicate a life when all mailing tasks perfectly can do simple
command 'Mail'?
What the hell does that mean?
That is reflections about
phillinux wrote:
I'm trying to write a bash shell script to create user accounts that
calls 2 functions. I can't call these functions from the script or the
command line. The set command seems to show the loaded script in the
shell (loaded with . FunctionName at command line) with other
envi
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
Pantor wrote:
Hi lads,
is it possible to make coloured text in VIM?
For example: "This sentence is in red color. This sentence is in black
color." The first should be in red.
For colors and fancy formatting, something like openoffice would be more
suited. VIM is a t
T o n g wrote:
An advanced bash alias expansion question --
How can I use my aliases or functions in my bash script?
PS. I even tried the following but it didn't work either:
$ bash -O expand_aliases -c '. ~/.bashrc; (rd /tmp/ttt; alias rd; dt bin;
type dt)'
The point of my previous resp
T o n g wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:47:15 -0900, Ken Irving wrote:
An advanced bash alias expansion question --
How can I use my aliases or functions in my bash script?
PS. I even tried the following but it didn't work either:
$ bash -O expand_aliases -c '. ~/.bashrc; (rd /tmp/ttt; alia
Michael Bane wrote:
Does anybody know of 'modules' [1] ready rolled for Debian (etch
preferably)? From the man page:
Sounds a lot like usepackage.
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Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to
add missing categories:
desktop OR window manager: wmii
development: autotools/git
mathematics: dc
misc utilities: sed
p2p: bit torrent
package manager: aptitude
terminal emulator: screen
text edi
Richard wrote:
What editors (IDE or RAD) environment application would work
or if needed to run 2 or 3 different editors that would be fine too.
(please no: emacs or vi (or command line apps)
wanting something that would be better than xcode on the mac,
which contain all libraries, and synta
Ed wrote:
> Is there
a different install image I should download and use. I was not too keen
on downloading the 20+ cd images for a complete CD install. Do you know
which ones I would need just for gnome and firefox for starters?
I didn't notice anyone address this yet--
You can get a full
roberto wrote:
hello
i use the "df -h" or "du -h"command to check how much disk space is
occupied by files and directories
but is it possible to sort the output list in an order such that the
first (or conversely the last) item is the largest in size ?
thank you
Unfortunately, df will often p
Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
Hey guys,
I recently compiled a bunch of software on my Debian Etch system
> for testing. After testing I wanted to remove them and I have been
> running the 'make uninstall' command in the source code directory
> of the respective application. I was curious as to how
Johannes Tax wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of
files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source
tree, I could do
cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function'
but this seems quite awkward, furthermore it doesn't help t
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Not every system has bash. If this is for compatibility, you can learn
POSIX sh, but e.g. Solaris /bin/sh is not a POSIX sh. For this reason
and because POSIX sh is limited (you can't execute a command and have
a timeout on it),
Here is a method for doing a timeout. I'
andy baxter wrote:
grep -R 'the' * | (of=""; while read f l ; do if [ "$f" != "$of" ] ;
then echo ; fi; echo $f $l ; of=$f; done)
will put a linebreak after every new filename, as long the none of the
filenames have spaces in.
This puzzled me for a while:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ cat inp
David Brodbeck wrote:
On Jul 16, 2007, at 5:21 AM, William Pursell wrote:
David Brodbeck wrote:
On Jul 14, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
I've yet to collide with another cyclist who was following the rules.
I have to say that, as a driver, it's the unpredictability of
BartlebyScrivener wrote:
On Jul 15, 4:20 pm, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
probably the easiest thing to do is write up a little wrapper for grep
like so:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -z $1 ] ; then
echo "please enter file type"
exit 1
fi
if [ -z $2 ] ; then
echo "ple
David Brodbeck wrote:
On Jul 14, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
I've yet to collide with another cyclist who was following the rules.
I have to say that, as a driver, it's the unpredictability of cyclists I
find distressing.
As a cyclist, I find the unpredictability of drivers dis
BartlebyScrivener wrote:
I'm playing with recursive grep. Still fairly new to Etch.
When I grep text files and get a dozen or so results, they print to
the screen as a dense block of text. I found the color option, which
helps, but is there a way to separate each result with a blank line,
or hi
Manon Metten wrote:
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?
For the total number of files:
$ find . -type f | wc -l
For the total number of directories:
$ find . -type d | wc
Mike McCarty wrote:
William Pursell wrote:
When you open the file in vim, type:
:set fileformat
It will probably report:
fileformat=dos
Then type
:set fileformat=unix
When you write the file, the dos style line terminators
will be replaced by only.
I suppose you mistyped "
Telly Williams wrote:
I'm reading up on Regular Expressions and I have a question about
alternation.
I have the sentences: "There was a dog in the house." & "A house on the
hill."
Both of these are in a file (named "regex") on two different lines.
My underst
Francesco Pietra wrote:
A script downloaded to a desktop i386/etch/gnome from Amber web site, edited on
the desktop with gnome text editor, then sent scp to a computing machine amd64,
turned out to be polluted by DOS formatting.
The computing program was prevented from reading the polluted lines
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Another one to try would be htop (http://htop.sourceforge.net),
which you'll find in the repositories.
Thanks. That one's quite good -- and colourful, too!
I don't think anyone has mentioned vmstat on this
thread.
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Cousin Stanley wrote:
I was (and I suppose still am) a huge fan of subversion.
I loved RCS, hated CVS, and found subversion to be a God-send
I started using git about 3 weeks ago
William
Under Debian Etch I see the following packages listed
git-arch
git
Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
On 06/30/2007 03:00 PM, William Pursell 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.
I second that.
However, if you are going to look
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 05:29:58PM +, Manon Metten wrote:
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 convenient
Andrew Gray wrote:
My name is Andrew, and I use Debian Lenny on an x86 machine.
I love Debian. I love apt. The Debian/Apt combination has allowed me to
use software I would have never before dreamed to be possible to use.
I'm quite content with my system at the moment. My problem comes when a
I have a box that powers down pretty regularly, and is
rarely up for more than 24 hours. I usually shutdown
via /sbin/shutdown from the command line, but occasionally
I'll use the rodent from a kdm screen. I noticed that
/var/log/messages contains far more "shutting down
for system halt" messag
L.V.Gandhi wrote:
On 6/14/07, *William Pursell* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> On 6/14/07, *William Pursell* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> > I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I
Philippe Lang wrote:
1) First of all, there is a nice feature under FreeBSD: on a shell,
command history can be filtered with a few characters, when using the up
arrow. For example, if you rember you restarted a deamon before, you can
type "/etc/i" and then press the up arrow key. Only past comm
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 03:22:11PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote:
I was going to use an SE Linux mailing list for this, but, figured
I'd ask on this list first, figuring that I may have a better chance of
not getting a biased answer.
I've heard all of this "talk
L.V.Gandhi wrote:
On 6/14/07, *William Pursell* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000
> files with same names. I would like to compare both direct
L.V.Gandhi wrote:
I created a .csv file in this format from a original file from the net.
The last field here is the last field in original file also. I made this
file as original file has empty lines and single field lines also.
SYMBOL,HIGH_PRICE,LOW_PRICE,HI_52_WK,LO_52_WK
BHARTIARTL,809.00,7
L.V.Gandhi wrote:
I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000
files with same names. I would like to compare both directories and find
out which files differ more than say 5 lines. I use kompare and see
manually. How to do it in command line easily?
Here's a scriptle
Kumar Appaiah wrote:
William Pursell gmail.com> writes:
I'm still confused as to why gmail is in the picture at
all when I run mailx. I did set smtp.gmail as my smtp
smarthost when I ran dpkg-reconfigure, but the only
reference to gmail in /etc/exim4 is in
update-exim4.conf.conf (
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:30:59PM +0100, William Pursell wrote:
I normally use icedove and pop my mail from gmail, and things
work fine. When I tried to send mail using:
$ mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < file
The mail was returned to me with:
SMTP error from remote m
I'm not sure if the following problem is an exim4 configuration
issue, and I'm hoping for some pointers on where to look.
I normally use icedove and pop my mail from gmail, and things
work fine. When I tried to send mail using:
$ mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < file
The mail was returned to me with:
andy wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:48:48 +0100, andy wrote:
I am wanting Icedove to launch Galeon or Iceweasel as the external browser,
but it launches Konqueror instead.
See Arthur Marsh's recent message:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/06/msg00810.h
BartlebyScrivener wrote:
I have been play with the ps command and trying various options. Is
there an option combo that will show me just the running applications:
firefox, gvim, mutt, etc? Or another Linux command that will show me
just the applications I have opened in various terminals? I'm l
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 06:58 +0100, william pursell wrote:
Greg Folkert wrote:
then i type "fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin" which i
assume changes it into a .deb file?
and the terminal then tells me: "-su: fakeroot: command not found"
Greg Folkert wrote:
then i type "fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin" which i
assume changes it into a .deb file?
and the terminal then tells me: "-su: fakeroot: command not found"
whats going wrong? D:
Try /usr/bin/fakeroot, and make sure fakeroot is installed.
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Hans du Plooy wrote:
Typo, sorry. Should be:
sed 's/\\(/ /'
Still doesn't work though :-) I guess the question should be, how to
excape a ( character?
With a backslash! The thing is, if you include the single quotes,
you don't need to escape it through the shell, but if you drop
the sin
Hans du Plooy wrote:
I'm trying to do a search/replace on some text. Looks like this:
1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4)
To my mind, this should replace the '(' with a space
sed 's/\\)/ /
But it does nothing. Why? How do I do this?
$ echo "1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4)" | sed 's/(/ /'
1.2.3.4 1.2.3.4)
$ echo "1.2.
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 05/11/07 19:36, s. keeling wrote:
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 05/11/07 12:49, s. keeling wrote:
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
How do you limit the number of batch jobs that can run at any one
time? (If the "job limit" of a queue is 4 and you submit 20 j
Bob McGowan wrote:
So, a question: Can python 'run' code directly from the command line,
as Perl does with the -e option?
Yes:
python -c 'print "!dlrow olleH"[::-1]'
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Tyler Smith wrote:
Second, and more to the (OT) point, what does screen do better than
multiple xterms, or shell-mode in Emacs?
Possibly the nicest feature of screen is the ability to
detach it, and the ability to attach multiple times. For
example, you can run a screen session, start a sh
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