Claudius Hubig wrote:
> bash(1) does not appear to mention $@.
It does but unfortunately it mentions it as a variable named @ and not
as $@ making it difficult to search. This problem has been discussed
upstream for instance here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-12/msg00097.htm
Mitchell Laks wrote:
> I see now that unless less is invoked with the -q option i will get
> the sound.
> ...
> and that successfully shut up sound on less and pager
> but it did not shut up sound for man.
>
> I still have a beepy noisy man.
Camaleón posted what I think is a better solution but
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>On Jo, 01 mar 12, 18:02:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>>>
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> /bin/less -q $*
>>
>>I've read somewhere that "$@" (including the quotes) is safer in such
>>situations.
>
> That’s also what keeps lingering in
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>
> /bin/lessq (I would actually suggest using /usr/local/bin/lessq)
Better, yes.
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On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Mitchell Laks wrote:
>> Yes, this all the result of the alternatives "system".
>>
>> Is it "/usr/bin/pager" or "/usr/pager"?
>
> yes it is "/usr/bin/pager"
>
> "/usr/pager" does not exist on my systems
I meant to write "/bin/pager" and "/usr/bin/lessq" below...
Dom wrote:
>On 01/03/12 20:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>> On Jo, 01 mar 12, 18:02:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->
#!/bin/sh
/bin/less -q $*
>>> I've read somewhere that "$@" (including the quotes)
On 01/03/12 20:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Jo, 01 mar 12, 18:02:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->
#!/bin/sh
/bin/less -q $*
I've read somewhere that "$@" (including the quotes) is safer in such
situations.
T
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>On Jo, 01 mar 12, 18:02:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>>
>> ->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->
>> #!/bin/sh
>> /bin/less -q $*
>
>I've read somewhere that "$@" (including the quotes) is safer in such
>situations.
That’s also what keeps lingerin
On Jo, 01 mar 12, 18:02:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>
> ->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->
> #!/bin/sh
> /bin/less -q $*
I've read somewhere that "$@" (including the quotes) is safer in such
situations.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On 18:02 Thu 01 Mar , Claudius Hubig wrote:
> That’s because you only set this variable to your shell and did not
> export it. Observe:
that was what i wanted to know. now i see that export makes it available to
programs.
> would then contain something like:
>
> ->->->->->->->->->->->->->->
Mitchell Laks wrote:
>however putting
>PAGER="less -q"
>alone seemed to set the variable (ie echo $PAGER
>responded less -q)
>
>but it did not change the behavior of say "man pdl"
That’s because you only set this variable to your shell and did not
export it. Observe:
->->->->->->->->->->->->->-
> Because PAGER isn't set by default.
>
> You can set it in "/etc/environment" or "~/.bashrc" or "~/.profile".
ok i put the line
export PAGER="less -q"
in the .bash_aliases
file (or in .bashrc)
and that worked.
however putting
PAGER="less -q"
alone seemed to set the variable (ie echo $PAGER
re
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> On 19:01 Wed 29 Feb , Sven Joachim wrote:
>> This is because .inputrc is only honored by programs that use readline,
>> and the standard pager does not use that.
>>
>> > how to get rid of this?
>>
>> Make sure that less (the standard p
On 19:01 Wed 29 Feb , Sven Joachim wrote:
>
> This is because .inputrc is only honored by programs that use readline,
> and the standard pager does not use that.
>
> > how to get rid of this?
>
> Make sure that less (the standard pager) is invoked with the "-q"
> option. E.g. set PAGER="/us
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:29:29 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Dear Gurus,
Not a guru here, but will try to earn some points, tron.
> I like silence.
+100 :-)
> While running a tty console
> (no X running)
> I include in .inputrc
> the line
> set bell-style visible
>
> this is clearly respected
On 2012-02-29 18:29 +0100, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> I like silence.
>
> While running a tty console
> (no X running)
> I include in .inputrc
> the line
> set bell-style visible
>
> this is clearly respected by say the
> tab command on an empty line (no beep, just a flash)
> however
> when i do
Dear Gurus,
I like silence.
While running a tty console
(no X running)
I include in .inputrc
the line
set bell-style visible
this is clearly respected by say the
tab command on an empty line (no beep, just a flash)
however
when i do
man anything
say man bash
and then reach the end of the b
t;man -w ls", do you get a file name, and does that
file exist? If all else fails, you might try reinstalling the
man command with "apt-get install man-db". (I'm not using 3.0 anymore,
so I'm not quite sure if man-db is the correct package name).
If you are using a German
When I type man and nothing else I get "What manual page do you want?"
so the command is there and working I would deduce. However when I type
"man ls" or any other command, there is no output at all. I've seached
google groups but found nothing to help point me in the right direction.
I'm runn
thank you,
that worked
if only m$ bugs were fixed this easily or quickly.
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Shriram Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >--- Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:34:01PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar
> wrote:
> >> > was
Shriram Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>--- Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:34:01PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
>> > was missing man-db, however, on trying to install, it shows the
>> > following error message
>> >
>> > trying to overwrite directory '
--- Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:34:01PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> > was missing man-db, however, on trying to install, it shows the
> > following error message
> >
> > trying to overwrite directory '/usr/share/locale/de' in package
> > texinfo with
Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> wonder if someone can help me. was playing around with dselect trying
> to fix a package dependency issue, removed 2 many packages and now it
> says that 'man' can no longer be found. error message as in subject
>
> what needs to be installed for man ?
It i
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:34:01PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> was missing man-db, however, on trying to install, it shows the
> following error message
>
> trying to overwrite directory '/usr/share/locale/de' in package
> texinfo with nondirectory
>
> any ideas ?
Can you give more error o
Lo, on Tuesday, July 24, Joost Kooij did write:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:55:43PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> > wonder if someone can help me. was playing around with dselect trying
> > to fix a package dependency issue, removed 2 many packages and now it
> > says that 'man' can no longer
--- Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:55:43PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> > wonder if someone can help me. was playing around with dselect
> trying
> > to fix a package dependency issue, removed 2 many packages and
> now it
> > says that 'man' can no longer
Hi all,
wonder if someone can help me. was playing around with dselect trying
to fix a package dependency issue, removed 2 many packages and now it
says that 'man' can no longer be found. error message as in subject
what needs to be installed for man ?
Thanks for your help
Shri
_
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:55:43PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> wonder if someone can help me. was playing around with dselect trying
> to fix a package dependency issue, removed 2 many packages and now it
> says that 'man' can no longer be found. error message as in subject
>
> what needs to
on Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:41:21AM -, john smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just wondering...I don't know if this topic is for this list
> but...is there a book or link somewhere that gives easier examples of
> how to do the correct syntax for "man" something.
I find that the
uot; will give more details.There was
a recent talk on
e-mail-list(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vim/message/19141)
about the small diferences between perl regex and vim regex.
From: D-Man To: debian-user@lists.debian.org CC: Dave Sherohman Subject:
Re: "man" command made easy? Date
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:35:30PM +0200, Leonard Stiles wrote:
> > Even vi is an overkill here, let alone an advanced editor:-)
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> Even easier:
>
> install package dwww, point browser to:
> http://localhost/dwww
Pshaw¹! Thats chea
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:02:31PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
[snip]
> Thanks. Actually, I'm not 100% sure that vim supports backreferences
> like that (the \1 in the replacement text). I know that Python's and
> Perl's regex engines do. I think I've heard/read that vim does do
> backreferences.
Yes.
Rebecca Dridan uttered:
>
> And for those who, like me, don't like the key bindings in info, check out
> pinfo, apt-get install pinfo.
Thanks, Bec. I don't much like the Info bindings. (Don't like Lynx too
much either, but I'd rather learn as few sets of keybindings as
possible...)
Paul
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:41:01PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
| D-Man uttered:
| >
| > [I haven't been following most of this thread, but]
| >
| > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
| > | Night before last I ran 'find /usr/doc -name "index.html" >foo.txt' and
| > |
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> All that Will said about the man pages is true, and I completely agree
> about the need for examples; I to have wasted hours fighting syntax
> errors, all the while with an ugly feeling that I might not even be
> trying the right com
D-Man uttered:
>
> [I haven't been following most of this thread, but]
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> | Night before last I ran 'find /usr/doc -name "index.html" >foo.txt' and
> | then spent 2 hours adding links from foo.txt to my local home/start
>
> 2 hou
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:35:30PM +0200, Leonard Stiles wrote:
> Even vi is an overkill here, let alone an advanced editor:-)
>
> #!/bin/sh
[snip]
Even easier:
install package dwww, point browser to:
http://localhost/dwww
Cheers,
Joost
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [I haven't been following most of this thread, but]
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> | Night before last I ran 'find /usr/doc -name "index.html" >foo.txt' and
> | then spent 2 hours adding links from foo.txt to my local home
[I haven't been following most of this thread, but]
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
| Night before last I ran 'find /usr/doc -name "index.html" >foo.txt' and
| then spent 2 hours adding links from foo.txt to my local home/start
2 hours!? Wow. Learn vi(m) or some
All that Will said about the man pages is true, and I completely agree
about the need for examples; I to have wasted hours fighting syntax
errors, all the while with an ugly feeling that I might not even be
trying the right command or option.
General advice based on things I've done:
1. Use less
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:25:10PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> caveat -- if your VCR is still blinking 12:00 then you're not
> ready for linux...
Good thing mine blinks --:-- instead...
> and sometimes there's no documentation at all... but that's
> rare. (even the most self-satisfied programme
caveat -- if your VCR is still blinking 12:00 then you're not
ready for linux...
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:41:21AM -, john smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just wondering...I don't know if this topic is for this
> list but...is there a book or link somewhere that gives easier
> examples of how t
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:14:30PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
>
> FILES
>Woman does not keep any files, but remembers everything you type.
In addition, multiple instances of woman have an extensive
shared memory implementation.
>
> BUGS
>There are no bugs. Woman
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:41:21AM -, john smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just wondering...I don't know if this topic is for this list but...is
> there a book or link somewhere that gives easier examples of how to do the
> correct syntax for "man" something. This probably won't be any problems
You might want to check out linuxnewbie.org. It has a lot of newbie-oriented
howtos. It's not as fine granularity as manpages, but will help with a lot of
basic tasks, and has some great forums.
I would also suggest the book "Linux in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly. This is
actually very close to wh
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:41:21AM -, john smith wrote:
> I was just wondering...I don't know if this topic is for this list but...is
> there a book or link somewhere that gives easier examples of how to do the
> correct syntax for "man" something. This probably won't be any problems to
> yo
john smith wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was just wondering...I don't know if this topic is for this list but...is
> there a book or link somewhere that gives easier examples of how to do the
> correct syntax for "man" something. This probably won't be any problems to
> you unix gurus out there but if I w
Hi,
I was just wondering...I don't know if this topic is for this list but...is
there a book or link somewhere that gives easier examples of how to do the
correct syntax for "man" something. This probably won't be any problems to
you unix gurus out there but if I wanted to do something and I d
> Is there somewhere where I can download "man" (the manual
> command) from the Internet?
You can download "man-db", "manpages" and "manpages-dev"(as well as any
other package) via ftp (e.g. ftp://ftp.xy.debian.org - for "xy" insert
a country-code). You find these files in the
./debian/dists/stabl
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 01:23:37PM +1200, Patrick Howden wrote:
> Hello I'm a newbie to Debian and I am having some problems with
> getting it to work properly (not many, but just a few). I can't find
> the "man" command on my system anywhere. This means that I can
Do man man, or info man
Patrick Howden wrote:
> Hello I'm a newbie to Debian and I am having some problems with getting it to
> work properly (not many, but just a few). I can't find the "man" command on
> my system anywhere. This means that I can't read inst
Hello I'm a newbie to Debian and I am having some problems with getting it to
work properly (not many, but just a few). I can't find the "man" command on
my system anywhere. This means that I can't read instructins for any packages
which I download. Is there somewhere
> Geengun Guim wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > How can I find which deb pakage contains man command?
> >
> > okebary:~/okebary-sys-conf# man securetty
> > bash: man: command not found
> >
> > I'd like to know about login as root. So I ran
ry a simple man command like "man ls" to see if
you get a response. Also "info" has a lot better
information at least in potato. Dean
Geengun Guim wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How can I find which deb pakage contains man command?
>
> okebary:~/okebary-sys-conf# man sec
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 06:00:05PM +0900, Geengun Guim wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How can I find which deb pakage contains man command?
>
> okebary:~/okebary-sys-conf# man securetty
> bash: man: command not found
dpkg -S /usr/bin/man
man-db: /usr/bin/man
You want to install
Hi all,
How can I find which deb pakage contains man command?
okebary:~/okebary-sys-conf# man securetty
bash: man: command not found
I'd like to know about login as root. So I ran man securetty. But
command not found. So I'd like to install man. But I cannot find which
deb paka
man-db I think
ttyS0 == com1
ttyS1 == com2 and so on
ps/2 mice is /dev/psaux
On 04-Nov-98 puzzle12 wrote:
> hi there,
> i installed debian 2.0 and got some (in fact A LOT) of .deb s
> and their man pages! but cant find a pkg which has the "man" program!!
> can any one let me know which deb pkg t
hi there,
i installed debian 2.0 and got some (in fact A
LOT) of .deb s
and their man pages! but cant find a pkg which
has the "man" program!!
can any one let me know which deb pkg to
download which has it ?
also,
what is the port /dev/ttySx for mouse
?
thanks
sriram
mount /dev/fd0 /floppy/ seems to do the trick. Is there a script I can set up
that would run
fdflush every time I want to access the floppy?
Thanks,
Jim
Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
> *-Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> |
> | Now, I find that when trying to mount /fd0 I get the error "can't find
> /fd0 in
*-Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Now, I find that when trying to mount /fd0 I get the error "can't find /fd0
in /etc/mtab
| or /etc/fstab
| I have edited /etc/fstab to include this line...
| /dev/fd0 /floppyauto noauto,sync 0 0
| as per the instructions I found at
www.de
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 05:40:25PM +, Jim wrote:
> Gosh I wish I had this when I started! Now, as I installed on a laptop and
> configured from default menu choice "Configure Device Driver Modules" first,
> and configured PCMCIA second, which might explain why my serial ports don't
> initializ
Gosh I wish I had this when I started! Now, as I installed on a laptop and
configured from default menu choice "Configure Device Driver Modules" first,
and configured PCMCIA second, which might explain why my serial ports don't
initialize (boy am I getting an education) I am thinking re-install?
W
I see, I must have been confused when the archive tried to open man and found
it wasn't
there. I wonder then why is the reference to man in the archive at all. Thank
you for your
help. And thank everyone for your help. This is a lively group!
Now, I find that when trying to mount /fd0 I get t
le file.
>
> I have downloaded another copy of base2_0.tgz from
> ftp://ftp.dti.ad.jp/.1/Linux/debian/hamm/hamm/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07-17/base2_0.tgz
>
> and found that it too is missing the command files.
>
> I say they are missing because when I install the system the man co
mm/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07-17/base2_0.tgz
>
> and found that it too is missing the command files.
>
> I say they are missing because when I install the system the man command
> is not present on the drive. Also, when I unzip the files on my WIn95
> machine Winzip encounters error
*-Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Hi. I'm new to the group and to Linux.
Hello, and welcome :-)
| I have installed Debian on my 486 laptop from Dos with files from
| ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/
| and have found base2_0.tgz is missing the man executable file.
Tha
m
ftp://ftp.dti.ad.jp/.1/Linux/debian/hamm/hamm/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07-17/base2_0.tgz
and found that it too is missing the command files.
I say they are missing because when I install the system the man command
is not present on the drive. Also, when I unzip the files on my WIn95
machine Winzip encou
I've just installed man-db and manpages from the following URL
http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/doc/
follow the instructions, then man command IS avaliable with comfort.
Alan Tam.
ayin wrote:
> Dear Sir
>
> When I install the man-db package , the dselect utility tell me t
On: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:53:15 +0800 ayin writes:
>
> Dear Sir
> When I install the man-db package , the dselect utility tell me that
> I should have groff. But groff need libg++272.
>
> The problem is that I have installed libg++272( the dselect show
> installed) , but the groff item still shows
Dear Sir
When I install the man-db package , the dselect utility tell me that I
should have groff. But groff need libg++272.
The problem is that I have installed libg++272( the dselect show installed)
,
but the groff item still shows that libg++272 does not appear in the
installed packages list,
On 10 Jan, Maurizio Marini wrote:
> Hi,
> i've installed debian 1.3 by
> cd availeble on various zines.
It's a problem entered because of the "last minute" upgrade before
burning the PLUTO CD (which has been copied by some magazines).
That version of man-db has been modifyed to work with the new p
The syntax you are using for setting your PAGER looks a little odd. Does it
work if you try it like this?
# PAGER=less
# export PAGER
// Heikki
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Hi,
i've installed debian 1.3 by
cd availeble on various zines.
someone knows how to patch the command man?
if hi enter :
#set PAGER less; export PAGER
i get this error:
sh: exec: pager: not found
man: command exited with status 32512: /bin/gzip -dc
'/var/catman/cat1/ftp.1.gz&#
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