Re: Where is "append" command

2004-01-02 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 08:50:38 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Stephen and Colin, please excuse me for butting in but I can't stand it :) Stephen, You've fixed your lilo.conf, so you don't need to do anything more with it. What Colin was showing you is how you can append more data the the end of an alr

Re: Where is "append" command

2004-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:50:38AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > You're missing a '>>', and as I said that isn't what you want in this > > case anyway (since you probably don't want to make that the last line of > > lilo.conf). > > # echo append="ide-scsi" >> /etc/lilo.conf >

Re: Where is "append" command

2004-01-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Colin, - snip - > > # echo append="ide-scsi" /etc/lilo.conf > > You're missing a '>>', and as I said that isn't what you want in this > case anyway (since you probably don't want to make that the last line of > lilo.conf). # echo append="ide-scsi" >> /etc/lilo.conf '>>' (double) or '>' (singl

Re: Where is "append" command

2004-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:31:10AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > å ææä 02 äæ 2004 20:54ïColin Watson åé: > > In answer to your question as asked, 'echo whatever >> filename' appends > > a line containing "whatever" to filename; but this isn't what you really > > want here. > > If I understand your a

Re: Where is "append" command

2004-01-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Colin, Bill, Paul and others Thanks for your advice. å ææä 02 äæ 2004 20:54ïColin Watson åé: > > I'm going to add following line to /etc/lilo.conf > > > > # append "hdc=ide-scsi" /etc/lilo.conf > > bash: append: command not found > > You're confused: append="hdc=ide-scsi" is a line you put

Re: Where is "append" command

2004-01-02 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 02:00:14 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi all folks, > > Debian (testing/unstable) > > I could not find the "append" command > > # which append > # whereis append > had no printout > > I'm going to add following line to /etc/lilo.conf > > # append "hdc=ide-scsi"

Re: Where is "append" command

2004-01-02 Thread Bill Kalebaugh
Yes there is, it is called cat. You can use it like this: $>cat file1 >>file2 Bill K Grzesiek Sedek wrote: Hey, you should add: append="hdc=ide-scsi" and than run lilo Grzesiek Sedek On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:00:14AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, Debian (testing/unstable) I cou

Re: Where is "append" command

2004-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:00:14AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Debian (testing/unstable) > > I could not find the "append" command > > # which append > # whereis append > had no printout > > I'm going to add following line to /etc/lilo.conf > > # append "hdc=ide-scsi" /etc/lilo.conf

Re: Where is "append" command

2004-01-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi, > A nice one :-)) It's not a command, it a verb: > > append > v 1: add to the very end; "He appended a glossary to his novel > where he used an invented language" [syn: {add on}, {supplement}, >{affix}] I tried follows; # append="hdc=ide-scsi" /etc/lilo.conf -su: /

Re: Where is "append" command

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
> A nice one :-)) It's not a command, it a verb: Oops! Wrong! Check the correct explanation in another reply. Didn't remember LILO uses such a thing, used LILO three times for approximately 1 hour and escaped back to grub(8) every time. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm

Re: Where is "append" command

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:00:14AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > I could not find the "append" command A nice one :-)) It's not a command, it a verb: append v 1: add to the very end; "He appended a glossary to his novel where he used an invented language" [syn: {add on}, {supplemen

Re: Where is "append" command

2004-01-02 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Hey, you should add: append="hdc=ide-scsi" and than run lilo Grzesiek Sedek On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:00:14AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi all folks, > > Debian (testing/unstable) > > I could not find the "append" command > > # which append > # whereis append > had no printout >